About 97 percent of residents in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trangare expected to gain electricity access by the Lunar New Year holiday inlate February next year, said Huynh Minh Hai, Director of theElectricity of Vietnam (EVN)’s Soc Trang Power Company.
Overthe past years, the company has paid heed to expanding the power gridto rural areas which are mainly inhabited by Khmer ethnic people, henoted.
Notably, a project worth 305.4 billion VND (14.5 millionUSD) to develop the power system was completed in 2012, providingelectricity for 20,192 households, mostly of Khmer people. All thetarget households didn’t have to pay any fees for facilities from powerlines to meters.
The project’s second phase, costing212.57 billion VND (10.1 million USD), are near completion as more than90 percent of the workload has already been done. This phase is carriedout province-wide with 16,784 household beneficiaries and hoped toraise the total number of households accessing electricity across theprovince to 314,866, or 96.9 percent.
Meanwhile, the third phasewith an investment of 100.1 billion VND (over 4.76 million USD) will beimplemented in 2015 to supply power to 8,575 households.
In the years ahead, the power company will go on with morelarge-scaled projects to ensure power supply to local resident as wellas shrimp farms, Hai said.
EVN plans to bring electricity toalmost all rural households by 2020. So far, all districts, over 99percent of communes, and 98 percent of rural households across Vietnamhave had access to electricity.-VNA
Overthe past years, the company has paid heed to expanding the power gridto rural areas which are mainly inhabited by Khmer ethnic people, henoted.
Notably, a project worth 305.4 billion VND (14.5 millionUSD) to develop the power system was completed in 2012, providingelectricity for 20,192 households, mostly of Khmer people. All thetarget households didn’t have to pay any fees for facilities from powerlines to meters.
The project’s second phase, costing212.57 billion VND (10.1 million USD), are near completion as more than90 percent of the workload has already been done. This phase is carriedout province-wide with 16,784 household beneficiaries and hoped toraise the total number of households accessing electricity across theprovince to 314,866, or 96.9 percent.
Meanwhile, the third phasewith an investment of 100.1 billion VND (over 4.76 million USD) will beimplemented in 2015 to supply power to 8,575 households.
In the years ahead, the power company will go on with morelarge-scaled projects to ensure power supply to local resident as wellas shrimp farms, Hai said.
EVN plans to bring electricity toalmost all rural households by 2020. So far, all districts, over 99percent of communes, and 98 percent of rural households across Vietnamhave had access to electricity.-VNA
