Commencement
Ceremony of Quang Trach Thermal Power Plant 1
Quang Trach
Thermal Power Plant 1 Project is the subsidiary of Quang Trach
Power Center,
which was built in Quang Dong commune, Quang Trach district, Quang Binh
province with total investment of more than 33,000 billion VND.
The project has
the capacity of 2×600 MW; a thermal power project using coal with big capacity
and it was the first time for application of the implementation model of EPC by
transferring separate sections, advice offer, equipment supply, and
construction to domestic firms. Thereby internal resources shall be further
strengthened, improve the competitiveness of domestic contractors at the behest
of the Prime Minister.
The pulverized
coal fired boiler technology is used for this project, high performance and
ensure the emission conditions complying with international and Vietnamese
standards.
Quang Trach
Thermal Power Plant is a major and urgent project in the planning of national
electricity development for 2006-2015, amd that of 2025 was also submitted to
Prime Minister for approval.
It is owned by
Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (VPN), Oil and Petrovietnam Engineering
(PVE) and Petrovietnam Company (PVC) are general contractors.
Attending the
ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai praised the investors,
contractors and Quang Binh people’s committee that they have been many efforts
to ensure adequate project commenced in the right conditions and expected time.
Deputy Prime
Minister said that the guideline implementation of electric development for
socioeconomic development, in the electricity development plan of 2011-2020,
and the vision of coming 2030, our country will develop 5,000 MW of electricity
/ year to increase power output from 100 billion kWh / year currently to 300
billion kWh / year in 2020 and 800 billion kWh / year in 2030. This goal requires
a great effort from us.
The covenant was
signed by the emulation units
On this project,
Deputy Prime Minister suggested that the Ministry of Industry and Trade should
closely direct the contractor to focus forces, supplies, equipment, and ensure
the environmental factors of the project, ensuring that the generators put into
operation as proposed schedule
The Quang Trach
thermal power project put into operation as right schedule will be the basis
for the project – Quang Trach 2 continues to be deployed in the next stage.
At the ceremony,
the representative of the employer has launched the period of emulation, focus
on all machinery, equipment, manpower and material resources, Generator No.1
will put into operation and connect with national power grid in June, 2015; the
generator No. 2 will put into operation in December, 2015.
As expected, when
completed and 02 generators put into operation, Quang Trach Thermal Power Plant
will provide a national grid about 8.4 billion kWh / year, contributing to
ensure national energy security to meet the development needs of sub-load of
the central region and reduce power losses due to transmitting long-distance.
Quang Dong
primary school, Quang Trach district – present from Vietnam National Oil and
Gas Group
In addition, the
project will help develop infrastructure for energy, production value in the
direction of modern industry, promote economic restructuring toward
industrialization and enhance the industry, develop the manufacturing sector
and other services, and create significant revenue sources for Quang Binh
province.