3:26:37 PM | 7/8/2005
Vietnam will officially inaugurate a complex of six power plants equipped with the most modern technology and the largest electrical capacity in Tan Thanh district, southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province on April 10.
The Phu My power center - which has a capacity of 3,859 MW, two folds higher than the Hoa Binh hydropower plant’s capacity and accounting for 40 per cent of the national grid's designed capacity - cost US$2 billion to build, including US$800 million of FDI capital. The plants are expected to supply more than 23 billion kWh a year and consume over 4.1 billion cu.m of natural gas.
The center has four 2,424-MW EVN-owned power plants: the Phu My 1 and Phu My 2.1, the extended Phu My 2.1 and the Phu My 4. Also in the center there are two foreign-invested power plants; the Phu My 3 and the Phu My 2.2 with combined capacity of 1,435 MW, which were built under the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) form
The Phu My power center started operation in 1997 and has so far supplied more than 41 billion kWh of electricity to the national grid. The center will become fully operational when the last part of the extended Phu My 2.1 is completed and put into operation this December.
The power complex called the Phu My Power Industrial Zone has also helped the formation of a gas industry in Vietnam. The center has consumed nearly 9 billion cu.m of gas in the past few years, including 7 billion cu.m of associated gas, which comes from oil exploitation and used to be disposed of by burning. Its use has so far saved the country VND35 trillion (US$2.2 billion).
Besides power plants, the Phu My center has other works: the circulation water supply and treatment system, the industrial wastewater treatment system and the oil and gas supply system.
Also belonging to the center, a VND1.37 trillion (US$87.39 million) national synchronic power grid system stretches along provinces of Dong Nai, Ho Chi Minh City, Long An and Tien Giang. The first phase includes 550 kilometers of the 110-KV power supply line and 1,100MVA 110-KV and 220-KV transformers, which transmit the entire power generating capacity of the Phu My 1, the Phu My 2.1 and the open Phu My 2.1 to the national grids.
The second phase is the 500-KV transmission system project, including 60 kilometers of the Phu My-Nha Be-Phu Lam 500-KV line, the 1,200-MVA 500/220 KV Nha Be transformers and the 900-MVA 500/220 KV distributor to transmit power generating capacity of the Phu My 2.2 and the Phu My 4.
The formation and development of the Phu My power center has been praised by EVN's leaders and foreign experts and indicates great progress in Vietnam's power industry.
Vietnam Economic Times, VNA
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