Foreign offshore wind power investors can sell projects, Vietnam SOEs prioritized to buy
Foreign investors of offshore wind power projects in Vietnam can sell their projects, and wholly state-owned enterprises (SOEs) or subsidiaries of those SOEs are prioritized to buy them.
The transaction is only permitted if the Vietnamese investors in the company refuse to purchase, according to the government's Decree 58/2025 on renewable and new energy, effective from March 3, 2025.
Transactions of a part of an offshore wind project or an entire project must comply with the Electricity Law 2024 and other laws related to investment, enterprises, and sea.
They must be approved by the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Industry and Trade if there is involvement of foreign investors.

A sea-based wind power project in Tra Vinh province, Mekong Delta, southern Vietnam. Photo courtesy of Trungnam Group.
In cases of not-yet operational projects, the foreign buyers must meet the following requirements.
First, they must have experience in investing and developing at least one offshore wind power project that is operational in Vietnam or in the world. “Experience” includes direct investment, contributing a minimum 15% of the project's total investment capital, and the ratio of equity to capital contribution being at least 20%.
Second, the foreign buyers must ensure that the offshore wind power project has the participation of domestic enterprises with at least 5% of chartered capital or voting shares of the company that implements such projects. The "domestic enterprises" must be wholly state-owned enterprises (SOEs) or firms with SOEs holding more than a 50% stake.
Third, they must commit to utilizing domestic supplies (workforce, service, products) during their investment, construction and operation, on the basis of ensuring competitiveness of prices, quality, schedule, and available capability.
For operational projects, the transations must meet the "second" requirement mentioned above.
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