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More than 5,300 ethnic households in the mountainous province of Son La have joined the national grid as a result of a local power project that began in September 2015.

The second 400 MW turbine of the Lai Chau Hydropower Plant in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau began generating power for the national grid on the morning of June 20.

Turbine group 2 with a capacity of 400 MW of the Lai Chau hydropower plant in northern Lai Chau province will provide electricity for the national grid on June 20 or 21.

Work on a project to connect rural areas in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu to the national grid by 2020 began in Hong Dan district on April 28.

Quang Ninh province has fulfilled its target of bringing electricity to all island communes after Cai Chien island in Hai Ha district gained access to the national electrical grid on April 28.

The Son La Power Company is working to supply electricity to thousands of families residing in remote areas in the northern mountainous province of Son La.

Over 10.8 trillion VND (491 million USD) will be allocated to projects providing electricity from the national grid to rural areas and islands in 19 provinces and cities nationwide from 2016 to 2020.

The northern mountainous province of Son La aims to raise the rate of households accessing the national electricity grid to 97.5 percent this year.

The thermal power plant Duyen Hai 1 has been officially put into commercial operation and connected to the national grid.

The A Roang hydropower plant in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue ’s A Luoi district was fully put into operation on January 20, helping the locality access the national grid.

An additional 714 households in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai will gain access to electricity later this year.

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.

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.

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).

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.