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SINGAPORE, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Singapore has granted conditional approval to Sembcorp Utilities SCIL.SI to import 1.2 gigawatts (GW) of electricity from Vietnam through subsea cables stretching over 1,000 km (620 miles), a minister said on Tuesday.Sembcorp will develop offshore wind and other capacity with Petrovietnam Technical Services PVS.HN for export to Singapore, Tan See Leng, Singapore's second minister for trade & industry, said at the Singapore International Energy Week.
"With this development,...we will be able to meet our goal of importing 4 GW of low carbon electricity when all of these projects are implemented," he said.
Conditional approvals by Singapore's Energy and Markets Authority (EMA) recognise a project's preliminary technical and commercial viability.
EMA has granted conditional approvals to projects with capacities of 2 GW in Indonesia, 1 GW in Cambodia and 1.2 GW in Vietnam, which aim to tap into diverse sources including solar, hydro, and wind.