On October 27, 2024, Ms. Bärbel Kofler - Secretary of State, Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, Federal Republic of Germany, as head of the delegation, visited and worked with the Northern Power Corporation (EVNNPC), conducted a field survey of the 110kV Yen Thang - Nam Dinh transformer station, under the project "Efficient power grid in small and medium-sized cities" - Phase 2 - borrowing capital from the German government through the German Reconstruction Bank KfW (KfW3.2). From the capital of the National Target Program for Socio-Economic Development of Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas, Phase I: From 2021-2025 and the provincial, district budgets and other legal capital sources, Dong Hy district, Thai Nguyen province invested in the construction of the Ban Ten hamlet concrete road project, Van Lang commune with a total investment of 11.8 billion VND. Immediately after arriving in the capital Doha, during the official visit to the State of Qatar, the evening of On October 30, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his wife, along with the Vietnamese high-ranking delegation, met with officials and staff of the Embassy and representatives of the Vietnamese community in Qatar. From the capital of the National Target Program for Socio-Economic Development of Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas Phase I: From 2021-2025 and the provincial and district budgets and other legal capital sources, Dong Hy district, Thai Nguyen province invested in the construction of the Ban Ten hamlet concrete road project, Van Lang commune with a total investment of 11.8 billion VND. Storm No. 3 (Yagi) passed, causing about 45,000 livestock and poultry in the mountainous district of Tien Yen (Quang Ninh) to be swept away by floods, most of which were chickens that were ready to be sold. This leads to a great risk of a shortage of chicken supply during the Lunar New Year 2025 when people do not have enough time to restock. On October 31, the Kon Tum Provincial Ethnic Committee coordinated with relevant departments, branches and People's Committees of districts and cities to organize a contest to learn about the law on ethnic affairs in 2024. After nearly 4 years of implementing Project 1, the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas for the 2021-2025 period (National Target Program 1719), with the active participation of Party committees, local authorities and the support of the community, the dream of a decent house for many poor ethnic minority households in Tra Vinh province has become a reality, people feel secure in working and production, rising out of poverty. On October 27, 2024, Ms. Bärbel Kofler - Secretary of State, Ministry of Cooperation and Economic Development, the Federal Republic of Germany led the delegation to visit and work with the Northern Power Corporation (EVNNPC), conduct a field survey of the 110kV Yen Thang transformer station - Nam Dinh, under the project "Efficient power grid in small and medium-sized cities" - Phase 2 - borrowing capital from the German government through the German Reconstruction Bank KfW (KfW3.2). The summary news of the Ethnic and Development Newspaper, on October 30, has the following notable information: After storm No. 3, Quang Ninh continues to face the risk of large forest fires. Flood season in the Muong Lay highlands. Unique rice offering ceremony of the San Diu people in Dong Hy. Along with other current news in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. At the time of changing seasons, the resistance of chickens decreases, making them susceptible to common diseases due to changes in weather and environment. People need to proactively implement many disease prevention and control measures to ensure that their livestock are always healthy. To achieve optimal efficiency in livestock farming, please refer to the following instructions on disease prevention for chickens during the changing seasons. After the floods, localities in Lao Cai province have been focusing on restoring production; ensuring adequate supply of plants and breeds is extremely important to meet the needs of herd restoration and restoring livelihoods for farmers. On the morning of October 31, at the Hau Giang Provincial Conference Center, a preparatory meeting for the 4th Congress of Ethnic Minorities in Hau Giang Province in 2024 took place. Attending the preparatory meeting were: Mr. Nguyen Hoang Trieu - Head of the Ethnic Minorities Committee of Hau Giang Province, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Congress Steering Committee, Head of the Congress Organizing Committee; representatives of leaders of departments, branches and sectors of the province; with 250 official delegates who are prestigious representatives, representing over 33,000 ethnic minorities in 8 districts, towns and cities. After efforts to implement many solutions to reduce child marriage and consanguineous marriage (TH&HNCHT) in ethnic minority and mountainous areas of Thanh Hoa province, the situation of consanguineous marriage has now ended. However, the rate of child marriage has decreased but not significantly, especially this situation is occurring mainly in the areas of extremely difficult border districts, affecting the socio-economic development of the locality. With many practical and effective solutions, after nearly 4 years of implementing the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the period 2021 - 2030; Phase I: From 2021 - 2025 (abbreviated as National Target Program 1719), Giong Rieng district, Kien Giang province has focused on effectively implementing component projects of the Program. Thereby, promptly supporting ethnic minorities to gradually stabilize their lives, have more opportunities to access high-quality services, and their spiritual life has also been significantly improved.
Mr. Tran Minh Dung, Deputy General Director of EVNNPC, chaired the reception of the delegation along with leaders and professional departments, related units of EVNNPC, central and local press agencies to attend and report.
Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Tran Minh Dung, Deputy General Director of EVNNPC said: Over the past years, EVNNPC has received financial support in the form of preferential loans from the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany through the KfW bank. With access to loans from the German Government, EVNNPC's power grid system has achieved the goal of increasing power supply capacity, improving power quality, enhancing power supply reliability and ensuring safety standards for the distribution grid; at the same time, creating a premise for the development of smart grids according to the roadmap to modernize Vietnam's power system.
"The 110kV Yen Thang-Nam Dinh transformer station, one of the projects built with loans from the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany through the German Reconstruction Bank KfW, is one of the tangible results of the cooperation between the two countries, of which the Vietnamese Electricity industry is the recipient and beneficiary," said Mr. Tran Minh Dung, Deputy General Director of EVNNPC.
Mr. Dung said that the project's scale includes the construction of 3,076 km of new 110 kV double-circuit line ACSR 300/39 and Yen Thang 110kV substation with 2 transformers with a capacity of 40MVA, completed the installation of 01 transformer T1 -110/35/22kV-40MVA, energized and put into operation on June 4, 2023, providing 128 million kWh of electricity to 44,472 electricity customers. The project brings economic efficiency, technical efficiency of power grid operation; political, social and environmental efficiency such as: improving power quality, reducing power loss; ensuring stable power supply for household and production loads, especially stable power supply for large pumping stations serving agricultural production; Attract investors to develop production in neighboring industrial clusters, contributing to local socio-economic development, ensuring security and politics in the area...
At the meeting, the delegation discussed issues related to the Fair Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) and Vietnam's net zero commitment, the social impact of high-cost investments in electricity supply, and coping with challenges to meet high growth demand...
In the face of the general trend of the world, the visible scarcity of electricity supply in the North, along with the responsibility to join hands with the Government to implement the National commitment on climate change at the COP 26 Global Climate Conference, green transformation is inevitable, EVNNPC is always aware of its role in the energy transition process, which is to improve the grid infrastructure to meet the diversity of electricity sources, especially the growth of renewable energy sources.
At the same time, identifying investment in developing the distribution grid as the core and top strategy, ensuring electricity supply to serve socio-economic development and the lives of people in the Northern provinces.
In the period of 2021-2025, EVNNPC has invested about 90,000 billion VND in building the power grid. To ensure power supply to meet the socio-economic development target with an average GDP growth rate of about 7%/year in the period of 2021-2030, it is expected to continue investing in building the power grid in the period of 2026-2030 with over 100,000 billion VND.
With the close cooperation between the two countries, the attention and determination from the Government, ministries and sectors of Vietnam and relevant parties, in the coming time, EVNNPC expressed its desire to continue to receive support and companionship from the German Government; as well as KfW Bank with preferential policies, financial, technological and technical support to help the Corporation gradually achieve its goals and roles, achieve sustainable growth, contributing to the sustainable development of 27 provinces and cities in the Northern region under the management of EVNNPC.
It is known that Vietnam and Germany have gone through a journey of sustainable and comprehensive development. Since 2011, the two countries have established a strategic partnership. In 2013, energy became one of the cooperation priorities of the German Government in Vietnam. Germany is a pioneer in the field of renewable energy, and has had many policies to support Vietnam in the energy transition process, specifically financial support, technical support, policy development support, and cooperation in projects such as wind power and solar power projects.
In 2023, the world's prestigious credit rating organization Fitch Ratings upgraded EVNNPC's credit rating to BB+, with a "Stable" outlook. EVNNPC's independent credit profile was assessed at 'BB+', equal to the credit profile of Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) and Vietnam's national credit rating (BB+/Stable).
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