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.
Another six Mong ethnic villages in Hang Chu commune, Bac Yen district in the northern mountainous province of Son La have just been connected to the national power grid.
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.
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).
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.
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