EVN Unit to Build US$7.5B Gas-fueled Power Center in Central Vietnam

Power Engineering Consulting Joint Stock Company 4 (PECC4), a unit of the state-owned Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN) plan to invest US$7.2 billion to build a 5,200 MW gas-fueled power center in central Binh Dinh province.

 

The center will occupy 250 hectares of land in Cat Khanh and Cat Thanh communes of Phu Cat district.

 

The center with expected operation between 2016 and 2021 will include three power plants with the first to have two 600-MW turbines and the second and the third to have two 1,000-MW turbines each.

 

The center is expected to substitute large-scale gas-fueled power plants in central and southern Vietnam under the national electricity development plan between 2006 and 2015, and vision 2025, or plan VI.

 

PECC4 said the center will use diesel oil (DO) and fuel oil (FO) with an estimated volume of 33,800 tons per year.

 

The company will propose the Ministry of Industry and Trade plug the project into the country’s power grid between 2009 and 2015.

 

If approved, the center will become the biggest thermal power center in Vietnam in terms of investment.

 

Currently, Vietnam’s biggest thermal power center Kien Luong that has a capacity of 5,200 MW and costs a total of US$6.7 billion is under construction in Mekong Delta Kieng Giang province. The first phase of the center is expected for completion in 2013, the second in 2016, and the last in 2018-2020. (VNA)