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The ground-breaking ceremony of Duyen Hai 3 extension thermal power plant in Tra Vinh Province last week - PHOTO: VIET HA
At the end of last month, Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation struck the EPC contract worth over US$890 million with EVN to develop Duyen Hai 3 in the Mekong Delta province.
According to EVN, the 660-MW plant covering nearly 880 hectares in Dan Thanh Commune in Tra Vinh Province’s Duyen Hai District will generate around 3.9 billion kWh of electricity a year when it is in place.
The station will come online in 42 months of construction after the date of the contract being signed by EVN and Sumitomo. The contract also includes building a port for coal to fuel the plant.
The project needs a total investment of about VND22.78 trillion (US$1.82 billion), with bank loans making up 85% and the rest coming from Sumitomo Corporation and EVN.
Duyen Hai 3 is one of the four power projects developed at the Duyen Hai Power Center with a combined generation capacity of 4,348 MW as outlined in a master plan for the nation’s power development between 2011 and 2020 with a vision toward 2030. The center occupies a total area of 879 hectares in the province.
Duyen Hai 1 was designed to generate about 7.8 billion kWh per year and use some 3.6 million tons of dust coal 6A a year transported from Hon Gai-Cam Pha in the northern province of Quang Ninh. The first generator of Duyen Hai 1 was commissioned over the weekend.
Duyen Hai 1 and 3 will help ease electricity shortages in southern Vietnam from next year and reduce the region’s dependence on hydropower.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
