Trung Nam Group on Monday inaugurated the 450MW Trung Nam-Thuan Nam solar power farm project, a 500kV transformer station and 220/500kV transmission line in Vietnam’s Ninh Thuan province.
The 12 trillion dong ($518 million) project spans more than 557ha in Phuoc Minh commune, Thuan Nam district including more than 17km of transmission lines of 500kV, 220kV stretching from Ninh Thuan to Binh Thuan province.
Ninh Thuan provincial People’s Committee chairman Luu Xuan Vinh said: “This is considered a historic milestone in Vietnam’s energy industry when private enterprises invested in energy transmission infrastructure.”
As the first-ever private enterprise so far allowed to invest in national grid transmission infrastructure, Vinh said the project was reflecting how the Politburo’s Resolution No 55-NQ/TW on Vietnam’s strategic orientations for national energy development through 2030 has encouraged private enterprises to invest in building renewable energy infrastructure.
“The project has contributed to making Ninh Thuan a national renewable energy centre,” Vinh added.
Vinh said it would also make an important contribution to easing the rate of unused plants that wasted thousands of billions of dong each year and improve the business environment in the province.
In Vietnam, though there is a risk of electricity shortage but many experts told the media because the infrastructure including electric lines and transformer stations is not synchronised, lots of renewal projects failed to generate their full capacity on the national electricity grid.
The plant started operating on September 29 and is expected to produce 1.2 billion kWh of electricity in the first year and more than one billion kWh from renewable sources every year.
Trung Nam Group director-general Nguyen Tam Tien said that though the project requires complicated implementation in the Covid-19 pandemic, the group with high determination completed in 102 days from the middle of May with the hard work of 8,000 officials, engineers and workers.
Tien said the project will contribute important capacity for regional power grids in Ninh Thuan and the south-central coast.
Two transformer stations of the project, with a total capacity of 1.800MVA and lines designed to improve connectivity, will increase system reliability in the regional power grid.
Trung Nam Group is also the executing unit of Ca Na general seaport project with the capacity of 70,000-100,000 DWT per year in Ninh Thuan.
Once finished by December 2022, the seaport will play a key role in supporting the transportation of equipment, especially super-heavy equipment for renewable energy projects and gas power projects in the field in the province.
VIET NAM NEWS/Asia News Network
