EVN improves power supply capacity

Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) Group stated lately that within this month, the group planned to start operation additional three turbines including the first turbines of Son La Hydropower plant, Song Tranh 2 hydropower plant and Dong Nai 3 hydropower plant, raising the total designed capacity to be put into operation in 2010 to 1,895MW.

The group announced that from the beginning of the year up to now, EVN has already officially operated eight turbines under six power plant projects with total designed capacity of 1,310 MW such as Plei Krong hydropower plant, Se San 4 hydropower plant, Ban Ve hydropower plant, Quang Ninh 1 thermo power plant, Hai Phong 1 thermo power plant and Srepok 3 hydropower plant.

In the first eleven months of this year, EVN also started construction works in four projects with total designed capacity of 3,156MW. There are thermo power plants of Nghi Son 1, Vinh Tan 2 and Duyen Hai 1 as well as Song Bung 4 hydropower plant, as well as finished construction projects of 98 power station with the total length of 1,700 kilometres. – TBKTVN

Tags: Vietnam electricity, Vietnam energy, Vietnam power shortage

Posted by VBN on Dec 15 2010. Filed under Energy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry