Vietnam's second largest hydro-electric power plant completed
HANOI - The building of Vietnam's
Yaly hydro-electric power plant has just been completed when the last turbine
group of the plant went into action on Wednesday morning, feeding power to
the national grid.
The 1,200-ton turbine group, the last of the four turbine groups of the
Yaly hydro-electric power plant, has a designed capacity of 180 MW,
according to a report of Vietnam News Agency on Wednesday.
With the fourth turbine group of the plant in the country's central highlands
Gia Lai province officially going into action, the Yaly plant will have a total
capacity of 720 megawatt (MW), supplying 3.68 billion kilowatt-hour (kWh)
of electricity to the national power grid to serve the country's central and
highlands regions.
The first turbine group of the plant generated power on June 23, 2000.
So far, the plant's first three turbine groups have produced more than 3.3
billion kWh of electricity, accounting for 12 percent of the country's total
power output.
The Yaly hydro-electric power plant is the second largest plant in the
country after the Hoa Binh hydro-electric power plant on the Da river in
northern Hoa Binh province.
According to Electricity of Vietnam, the country needs 40 billion kWh of
electricity this year. The figure will increase to between 46 billion and 49 billion
kWh in 2005, and between 78 billion and 82 billion kWh in 2010 and 200
billion in 2020.
Xinhua News Agency - December 12, 2001.
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