Vietnam: The first Hydropower Project funded by World Bank has started power generation

Vietnam: The first Hydropower Project funded by World Bank has started power
generation

At 5.47 am Feb. 15, 2017, the Unit No1 of Trung Son Hydropower Plant (HPP
has officially synchronized with National Power System. This is the first
hydropower project in Vietnam invested by World Bank (WB) funds.

Trung Son HPP was started for construction at the end of November, 2012 on
the upper reaches of Ma river in Trung Son commune, Quan Hoa district, Thanh
Hoa province.

This hydropower plant is multipurpose project as electricity generation,
flood control in rainy season and water supply in dry season for Thanh Hoa
province.

Trung Son HPP includes 4 units by 65MW each (260 MW) with an average
generation of 1,018.61 GWh/year. With a regular flood preventive volume of
112 million cubic meters the project will effectively participate in flood
control on the lowlands.

The investor of the project is Trung Son HP Single Member Company Ltd under
Electricity of Vietnam (EVN). The total investment of the project estimated
over VND 7,775.146 Billion equivalent to US$ 410.68 million, among which US$
330 million is WB funds and US$ 80.68 million - EVN counterpart funds.

Trung Son HPP is one of the very few remaining relatively large capacity
hydropower projects exploitation in Vietnam. The project was being prepared
during 9 years with with 4 studied site options. The Trung Son site has been
selected with the careful consideration to maximally limit environmental and
social impacts, and comply the WB requirements and policy on safety.

In this project, 8/10 international standards for hydropower projects were
applied by WB requirement.

This is the first HPP so far to be designed more some items for
strengthening safety level as: breakdown spillway (a fuse dam) to protect
dam and plant in probable maximum floods (PMF), sand discharge gate for dam
protection in case of the large sand sediment..The finance for these
additional items is about 300 billion dong.

This is also a project with the lowest environmental and social impacts in
relevant construction, operation activities. Especially, the lives of the
people affected by the project will be significantly improved when the
project is completed.

It is necessary to say that Trung Son HPP is a socially sustainable and
environmentally amicable energy project. With a generation of 01billion
kWh/year, Trung Son HPP will contribute to the anti-climate change program
by reducing about 1 million ton of CO2 in comparision with a coal fired
thermal power plant of the same generation.

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John Diecker
APT Consulting Group Co., Ltd.

www.aptthailand.com