29 Hydropower Plants with 3,000-MW Capacity Underway in Northern Vietnam
Northern mountainous Son La province is implementing 29 hydroelectric projects with combined capacity of 2,863 MW, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Son La hydropower project alone has a capacity of 2,400 MW invested by the Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN).
Other projects are small-and-medium-sized with the most prominent being 196-MW Nam Chien hydropower project invested by Nam Chien hydroelectric joint stock company in which Song Da Corporation has 60 per cent stake equity.
However, none of the projects have been in operation, said the ministry, adding that four projects namely Suoi Sap 1, Suoi Tan 2, Ta Niet and Muong Sang are due for operation in late this year.
Son La province embraces great hydroelectricity potential but local socioeconomic development is still at modest level and massive local people are living with poverty.
Vietnam, heavily dependant on hydroelectricity, will lean to thermo-power development after 2010.
The country will lack between 4.3 and 10.3 billion kWh of electricity from 2007 to 2009 due to increasing demand, an EVN source said. (Icon)
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