A ceremony was held on April 20 in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinhto establish the Duyen Hai Thermal Power Company under the VietnamElectricity’s Power Generation Corporation 1 (EVNGENCO 1).
The company, located in Dan Thanh village of Duyen Hai district, willbe responsible for a number of activities, including electricityproduction and trading, managing, operating and maintaining the DuyenHai thermal power plants and the Duyen Hai Power Centre seaport.
The Duyen Hai Power Centre, covering nearly 880 hectares in Dan Thanhcommune, Duyen Hai district has a capacity of roughly 4,308 megawatts.
The project, at a cost of more than five billion USDinvested by EVNGENCO 1, includes four units using coal fired traditionalcondensed steam turbine technology and the largest coal port in theMekong Delta.
Construction of the 622.5-megawatt-capacityturbine No. 1 has been completed and it is connected to the nationalpower grid on a trial basis.
The turbine will officially be linked with the national grid on July 25.-VNA