VinEnergo Hon Trau Binh Dinh Phase 1
Hon Trau island. VinEnergo = Vingroup energy subsidiary. Floating wind. Pre-FID + no offtake + floating = min 2031.
Status
Early Developmentlifecycle stage
ProspectiveHafrok completion outlook
Ownership
VJVinEnergo Energy JSC — 100% ◇
Location
South China Sea
Technology
Capacity
750 MW ◇
Turbines
—
Foundation
—
Site & conditions
Site rights
Application filed 2026-02 ◇
Water depth
114–142 m ≈
Wind speed
8.0 m/s @ 150 m ≈
Revenue & grid
Offtake
—
Grid
Not recorded ◇
Connection
220 kV (design spec; no confirmed offer or agreement) ◇
Schedule
FID
Not taken
COD · announced
2029-Q4 ◇
COD · Hafrok
2033 expected
Delivery outlook modelled by Hafrok · calibrated on delivered projects
2033
expected year of commercial operation
The developer says 2029-Q4; Hafrok expects 2033 — 4 years later.
Chance of delivery
≈46%
estimated chance this project reaches commercial operation
Early Development projects complete ≈61% of the time on Hafrok's record. This one sits well below that: a market with no delivery record yet, its size, technical complexity and no offtake contract yet.
COD outlook
If it completes, when — Hafrok’s probability by year (teal)
| Year | Probability |
|---|---|
| 2032 | 14.1% |
| 2033 (expected) | 28.0% |
| 2034 | 22.7% |
| 2035 | 14.6% |
| 2036 | 8.7% |
| 2037 | 5.1% |
| 2038 | 3.1% |
| 2039 | 1.8% |
| 2040 | 1.1% |
| 2041 | 0.7% |
How Hafrok got this date
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No dated milestone yet
Nothing is consented or financed with a date, so the estimate starts from today (
2026), adds the time similar projects (in new offshore-wind markets) took from consent to operation, plus an allowance for obtaining consent.2
Earliest credible date
Typical consent-to-operation time plus allowances means commercial operation before
2033 is not credible.3
Merchant project — financing counted from today
The project has no offtake contract yet. This project's route offers no support scheme: it has to sign a power contract and take a financing decision on its own, and Hafrok counts that from today (
2026 Q3) rather than from a tender it cannot enter. The permits are not affected; winners typically reach final investment decision about 2 years after an award (2028 Q3), then build time on top gives 2031 Q3. The milestone timing is already later than that, so it stands.4
Result
Expected commercial operation
2033, likely range 2033–2038 (the middle half of outcomes for similar projects). With no milestone to build from, the earliest credible date is the estimate, with a deliberately wide range.5
Year-by-year chart
The bars spread that estimate across years using how similar projects actually slipped against their dates — more often late than early, which is why the bars lean right.
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Chance of delivery — separate from timing
Start from the share of Early Development projects that went on to complete — ≈61%, measured on Hafrok's record of delivered and abandoned projects, with an allowance held back where that record cannot yet speak (projects still unresolved, changed market conditions). About three in four early-stage projects with a final outcome went on to operate — a record from an easier era. Most of today's early pipeline is still unresolved, so the estimate discounts it. Then adjust for this project's own evidence — offtake, market, size, technical complexity — to ≈46%, which rates it
Prospective on Hafrok's four-step delivery scale (Delivering · Expected · Prospective · Fragile).Project timeline verified milestones only — each date carries its provenance mark
Dashed tick marks today (9 Sep 2026). The ▲ below the spine is the developer-announced COD.
Revenue & offtake route to market — open
No offtake secured — route to market open
The routes describe what exists in this market — not a prediction of which the project will take. Timing math for the auction gate lives in the delivery outlook above.
Installation how the build is going · from satellite counts and Hafrok’s registers
Installation not started
nothing to count yet: the satellite tracker begins when offshore construction does
Installation · on record
StageEarly Development
Offshore constructionnot started
Expected start of operation2029-Q4
Sources & verification
0/11 fields verified · rests on 7 sources · ◆ 3 documents held
◆Verified≈Modelled◇Sourced∴Inferred⌁Convention○Unverified∅No source·Derived
Numbers are stable citation ids — grouped by source class, so they are not consecutive.
Trade press6
[2]
The Investor (Vietnam)2026-02-05◆ Vingroup's energy arm VinEnergo named in…
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsoperatorConsentCommercial operationSite rightsTotal capacity
[3]
Enerdata2026-02-09◆ Vietnam selects Vingroup to build a 750 …
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsStatusConnection point
[4]
The Investor2025
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsTotal capacity
[5]
[6]
[7]
Unverified import1
[1]
unknown◆ Vingroup's energy arm VinEnergo named in…
Press report — cited, not quoted; read it at the source link.
supportsTotal capacityWater depthCoordinates