A ceremony was held on January 16 in Quang Ninh province to celebrate the commercial operation of the 1,080 MW Mong Duong 1 thermo power plant, in the presence of Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai.
Nearly 3,000 rural households in the northern mountainous province Son La will be connected to the national power grid under a project that started on January 12.
State-run EVN and the People’s Committee of central Quang Nam province held a ground-breaking ceremony for the project that provides electricity access from the national grid to Cu Lao Cham.
The Electricity Company of Vinh Long province in the Mekong Delta plans to spend 35 billion VND (1.6 million USD) to develop the rural electricity network.
Nearly 89 percent of households in rural areas, or 14.85 million households, had gained access to the national power grid by the end of 2015, according to the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) Group.
Tien Giang province has made efforts over the last five years to facilitate the local residents’ access to electricity to realise the national target programme on building new-style rural areas.
The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) Group is continuing its efforts to upgrade and develop the national power grid in rural areas in order to connect all communities by 2020.
Duyen Hai 1 Thermal Power Plant in southern Tra Vinh province has generated 1 billion kWh of electricity by December 19 since it entered into commercial operation in June this year.
The HCM City Power Corporation (EVN HCMC) under the Electricity of Vietnam has supplied a total electricity output of 88.4 billion kWh during 2011-2015.
Approximately 36,400 ethnic minority people living in 313 remote villages in the mountainous northwestern province of Son La do not yet have access to the national power grid.
The electricity supplied for production in the first 11 months of 2015 reached nearly 61.73 billion kWh, a year-on-year rise of 8.78 percent, according to the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN).
As many as 900 communes have yet to hand over their low-voltage grids to the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) corporation, even though the deadline for the transfer is the end of this year.
The Prime Minister has approved the addition of a 95 MW biomass power plant project in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai to the Vietnam national power development plan from 2011-2020.
More than 100 billion VND (4.45 million USD) has been poured into developing a comprehensive power network in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong this year.
Hon Nghe island commune in Kien Luong district, the southwestern province of Kien Giang will link to the national grid in 2016 as a power supply project started in Rach Gia city on October 10.
Up to 604,334 households in the southern province of Dong Nai, or 99.49 percent, have accessed the national power grid, according to the provincial Department of Industry and Trade.
A project to connect the national grid to households without electricity in the mountainous province of Son La was kicked off in Canh Kien hamlet, Na Nghiu commune, Song Ma district on September 10.
The northern mountainous province of Son La plans to splash out 1.26 trillion VND (56 million USD) for the construction of an electricity grid in rural areas from 2016-2020.
The Southern Power Corporation under the Electricity of Vietnam will begin construction on the country’s longest sea-crossing cable line in the southern province of Kien Giang on September 4.
As many as 189 villages and hamlets with 13,924 households in the central highlands province of Dak Lak still lack access to electricity from the national grid.
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