As many as 60 power plants have joined the electricity market directly so far this year with a total capacity of 14,952 megawatts, accounting for 40 percent of the national power system.
The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) aims to mobilise over 600 trillion VND (27.9 billion USD) from both domestic and international sources to develop power plants and grids from 2016-2020.
All communes in the northern province of Lai Chau were connected to the national grid six months earlier than expected, as heard at a ceremony to mark the event in the locality on August 6.
All communes in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau are connected to the national power grid after electricity was brought to the province’s last two localities of Nam Cha and Ta Ba.
The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has spent nearly 480 trillion VND (22.3 billion USD) to develop power plants and grids from 2011-2015 in compliance with the national power development plan.
The Ha Giang Electricity Company is working to develop local power
networks and extend the national grid to far-flung areas in northernmost
Ha Giang province, said Director Hoang Van Thien.
As much as 83.9 percent of rural families, or 14.25 million
households, across the country gained access to the national electricity
grid as of June 2015, according to the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN).
The southern province of Dong Nai will provide Dong Nai power company
with a 68 billion VND (3.15 million USD) loan to build a rural
medium-voltage grid, according to the provincial Department of Industry
and Trade.
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai gave the nod to the Electricity
of Vietnam (EVN) to continue the implementation of the project to
connect ethnic households in northern mountainous Son La province to
national grid, expected to increase its population with electricity
access to 86 percent by the end of this year.