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Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000)
service agreement, designed to maximise
energy production for the site. With a
yield-based availability guarantee, Vestas
will provide the customer with long-term
business case certainty. This will be Vestas’
sixth 20-year long term service agreement
signed in Vietnam, underlining the customers’
confidence in its service capabilities.
The construction of the project is expected
to be completed in the fourth quarter of
2021, ahead of the current wind feed-in tariff
reality. As part of the MOU, Keppel Data Centres deadline in Vietnam.
“The Energy Corporation of NSW will and MHI-AP will also explore producing VESTAS
oversee the development of the REZ, and this hydrogen fuel for the tri-generation plant
new funding will enable it to coordinate the through the steam methane reforming (SMR) MHI Vestas signs deal with
technical design and planning processes, lead process. By incorporating carbon capture and
community engagement and oversee the local storage capabilities, both parties will seek to Mitsubishi Electric Europe
benefit sharing process.” ensure that the process is carbon neutral.
REZs will play an important role in One of the possible data centre projects for switchgears
removing barriers to investment in new that might benefit from the hydrogen powered
renewable generation over the coming tri-generation plant concept is the floating MHI Vestas has agreed a purchase agreement
decades. Released in late 2019, the NSW data centre park project in Singapore that with Mitsubishi Electric Europe to source
Electricity Strategy sets out a commitment to Keppel Data Centres is currently pursuing. switchgear for upcoming offshore wind farms
deliver Australia’s first coordinated REZ in the MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES in Taiwan through the participation of local
Central-West Orana region. Taiwanese manufacturer Shihlin Electric and
Engineering Corporation (SEEC).
WIND The deal is expected to enable Mitsubishi
Electric and SEEC to build expertise through
Vestas wins full scope wind projects to prepare for potential export
HYDROGEN supplying MHI Vestas’ Taiwanese offshore
Keppel, MHI to explore EPC contract for 48 MW to the broader Asia-Pacific region.
Assembly and testing of the 66kV
hydrogen powered intertidal project in Vietnam switchgear will be done at SEEC’s factory
in Hsinchu, with first delivery in 2022 for
trigeneration plant Vestas has secured its second full Engineering projects to be installed in 2023 and 2024.
Procurement Construction (EPC) contract in
It added that in collaboration with
Keppel Data Centres Holding Pte Ltd Vietnam with a 48 MW Tra Vinh V1-3 project developers Copenhagen Investment Partners
(Keppel Data Centres) and Mitsubishi Heavy from REE Corporation, a Vietnamese publicly (CIP) and China Steel Corporation (CSC), the
Industries Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (MHI-AP) listed company. Vestas will provide a full company has developed and is in the process
have inked a memorandum of understanding turn-key solution with delivery, installation of delivering a supply chain localisation plan
(MOU) to jointly explore the implementation and commissioning of 12 V150-4.2 MW wind for offshore wind projects in Taiwan.
of the hydrogen powered tri-generation plant turbines delivered in 4.0 MW operating mode, MHI Vestas Taiwan business director
concept for data centres in Singapore. as well as the project’s civil and electrical work. Maida Zahirovic said: “The fact that we will be
Together, the parties will study how a “We are thrilled to secure our second EPC able to source switchgear locally in Taiwan is
hydrogen powered tri-generation plant intertidal project in Vietnam which showcases a significant achievement for MHI Vestas and
supported data centre can meet the expanding the trust that our customers have in our for the development of the local offshore wind
needs of the digital economy in a safe, reliable capabilities across the full range of projects supply chain in-country.
and environmentally friendly manner. including intertidal which are located in “We will continue delivering the leading
Firstly, the use of hydrogen as an complex and challenging environments,” said localisation plan in Taiwan in conjunction
energy source can potentially be more Clive Turton, President of Vestas Asia Pacific. with our local partners, and we look forward
environmentally friendly as the combustion “I would like to thank REE Corporation for to working with Mitsubishi Electric and SEEC
of hydrogen does not produce greenhouse gas choosing us to deliver end-to-end reliability on switchgear production, helping them to
emissions. for their wind project”. prepare for export throughout the APAC
Secondly, as a tri-generation plant “We are excited to partner with Vestas in region.”
produces heat, power and cooling, a their role as the EPC contractor for the Tra “We are committed to contributing to
trigeneration plant-supported data centre can Vinh V1-3 project, and we look forward to Taiwan’s sustainable society, by supplying
not only tap on the electricity produced by the successful implementation of our first localised switchgear to MHI Vestas in its
the plant, thereby reducing its reliance on the nearshore wind farm project with Vestas”, said Taiwanese projects.”
national grid, but also tap on the chilled water Mdm. Nguyen Thi Mai Thanh, CEO of REE
produced by the plant to cool the data centre’s Corporation.
systems and facilities. The order also includes a 20-year Active

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