Hanoi (VNA) – The Electricity ofVietnam (EVN) has made remarkable contributions to rural electrification after10 years of implementing the Resolution on agriculture, farmers and rural areasissued at the seventh plenum of the 10th Central Committee of the CommunistParty of Vietnam.
Over the past decade, the EVN has providedelectricity for production and daily use of nearly 2 million rural households throughthe upgrading and building of middle- and low-voltage transmission networks.
The work was financed by official developmentassistance (ODA) loans worth about 2 billion USD from the World Bank, the AsianDevelopment Bank, the French Development Agency, the German Development Bank,and the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
Besides, the group has spent over 5.5 trillionVND (240.9 million USD) carrying out projects to connect 369 communes withnearly 400,000 families in far-flung rural and border areas of Son La, DienBien, Lai Chau, Bac Kan, Nghe An, Lang Son, Khanh Hoa, Tra Vinh, Soc Trang, HauGiang, Ca Mau, and Kien Giang to the national grid.
EVN has invested in building power supplysystems for island districts and communes to develop sea-based economy, protectthe marine environment, and contribute to safeguarding the national sovereigntyover seas and islands.
It has built overhead electricity lines andcross-sea submarine cable lines at total cost of over 6.1 trillion VND (267.1million USD) to island districts such as Co To (Quang Ninh), Phu Quoc, Kien Hai(Kien Giang), and Ly Son (Quang Ngai) as well as many island communes acrossthe country, supplying electricity for over 140,000 households.
By the end of 2017, EVN sold electricity tonearly 6,000 communes in rural areas with over 6.2 million households.
The company is also selling electricityaround-the-clock for 11 out of the 12 island districts across the country,namely Van Don, Co To (Quang Ninh), Cat Hai, Bach Long Vi (Hai Phong), Con Co(Quang Tri), Ly Son (Quang Ngai), Phu Quy (Binh Thuan), Truong Sa (Khanh Hoa),Con Dao (Ba Ria – Vung Tau), and Phu Quoc and Kien Hai (Kien Giang).
The implementation of synchronous measures toimprove the power supply system has brought a facelift to Vietnamese ruralareas. The proportions of communes and households accessing to electricity hasincreased from 97 percent and 93.4 percent in 2007 to 99.98 percent and 98.83percent in 2017, respectively.-VNA