The Vietnam Machine Installation Corporation (Lilama) on August 26 successfully installed steam drum 1B of the Mong Duong coal-fired power plant in the northern Quang Ninh province.

The successful installation of the 160-tonne boiler drum marked a new stage in building the power plant.

The plant is one of the two facilities in the Mong Duong Electricity Centre - part of the National Electricity Development Plan for 2006-2015.

Under a contract signed by Lilama and the main contractor, Huyndai Engineering & Construction Co Ltd, Lilama will install all the plant’s electro-mechanical equipment from December 2012 to October 2015.

Mong Duong 1 with two turbines will have a combined capacity of 1,080 MW, generating 6.5 billion kWh of electricity per year. The first and second turbines are expected to become operational in the first and third quarter of 2015, respectively.-VNA