Singaporean Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Trade and Industry Tan See Leng speaks at the ceremony to grant conditional approval to Sembcorp Utilities to import wind power from Vietnam. (Photo: VNA)

Sembcorp Utilities is a partner of Petrovietnam Technical Services Corporation in an investment and development cooperation project to build an offshore wind power farm in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province of Vietnam, to export electricity to Singapore. The project is expected to have a capacity of about 2.3 GW, with an energy storage battery system to export 1.2 GW to Singapore through a 1,000km-long high-voltage submarine cable line.

Vietnamese Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung said Singapore’s granting of conditional approval marked a very notable milestone in energy cooperation between Vietnam and Singapore.

Singaporean Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Trade and Industry Tan See Leng said that Singapore and Vietnam have a close relationship and share a common goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050. He said the an approximately 1,000 km power transmission line between the two countries could be "the longest distance ever".