Eliminating villages and hamlets without national grid electricity is a key and continuous task that local Party committees, authorities and functional units in the province pay special attention to. Therefore, along with the investment of the State, the province actively calls for and mobilizes investment resources, associated with the roadmap for new rural construction, ensuring that 100% of villages, hamlets and households have access to the national grid electricity. However, due to the characteristics of highland and mountainous areas, there are still many areas in the province that have not yet used the national grid electricity.
By May 2023, Tenh Phong commune (Tuan Giao district) had only 1/5 villages with national grid electricity. The remaining 4 villages with nearly 200 households, including: Ha Dua, Xa Tu, Tham Nam, Huoi Anh are still waiting for electricity. Those households with conditions use electricity and water, install mini solar panels, the rest mostly use oil lamps for lighting. The lack of electricity greatly affects people's lives, children's education and the general work of the locality. In 2022, Tenh Phong commune provided loudspeakers to the villages, but due to lack of electricity, the loudspeakers could not be used. The lack of national grid electricity has significantly affected the implementation of Project 06, digital transformation for local people.
According to statistics from Tuan Giao district, currently in the district there are 21/177 villages with a total of more than 1,500 households that have not used the national grid. In order to soon bring the national grid to these villages, Tuan Giao district has compiled a list and sent it to the Department of Industry and Trade to synthesize and submit to the Provincial People's Committee to include in the list of approved provincial power development plans for the period 2016 - 2025. In 2021, the Provincial People's Committee approved the addition of a list of projects to implement the investment and construction plan under the rural electricity supply project from the national grid, including investment in bringing electricity to 4 highland villages of Tuan Giao district. However, up to now, the capital source has not been arranged.
In Tua Chua district, in recent times, all levels and sectors have made efforts to implement projects to bring electricity to highland villages and hamlets, but for many reasons, many villages and hamlets have not yet used the national grid. Typically, in Lao Xa Phinh commune, there are currently 2/6 villages and hamlets (Cang Phinh and Cheo Chu Phinh) with 139 households without national grid electricity.
Mr. Mua Giong Chu, Cang Phinh village, Lao Xa Phinh commune shared: Because there is no electricity grid, the households in the village are very disadvantaged, especially children do not have electricity to study. People want to watch TV, news, apply science and technology in production but it is also difficult. For many years, people in the village have been hoping that the State will pay attention, create conditions for the national grid to help people access civilized and progressive things. If there is a national grid, my family plans to buy a refrigerator and a rice milling machine to serve my family and the people in the village.
According to Mr. Dinh Ba Thinh, Deputy Head of the Economic - Infrastructure Department of Tua Chua district, currently in the district, there are still 9/120 villages and hamlets that do not have national grid electricity and 65 villages and hamlets have electricity but a part of them, the residential group with a total of 1,715 households scattered in 12/12 communes and towns has not used the national grid electricity. Of which, the most are in Trung Thu commune (355 households), Sin Chai (239 households), Xa Nhe (223 households), Muong Bang (205 households), Lao Xa Phinh (139 households), Ta Sin Thang (103 households). The reason is due to the mountainous terrain, people do not live in a concentrated area, and the traffic infrastructure in many places does not meet the demand for construction and installation of electricity works. Along with that, the investment resources for the electricity system are very large, so it is very difficult for the locality.
Not only Tuan Giao and Tua Chua districts, Dien Bien is currently the province with the lowest rate of people using the national grid in the country (reaching 92.5%). Of which, the rural area has nearly 102 thousand households, reaching 91.34%; the whole province has only 67/115 communes meeting the criteria for electricity in new rural construction, while over 10,400 households have not used the national grid. One of the biggest difficulties when investing in the grid to villages and hamlets in ethnic minority areas is the complex terrain, divided by high mountain ranges, causing difficulties in transporting materials and investment capital for construction works. In addition, the people live scattered and not concentrated, so the power lines have to be extended too far, leading to unstable voltage.
Towards the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory, Dien Bien province has launched the "Light Up Dien Bien" program, striving to build a rural electricity system by 2024, providing electricity to 100% of villages and hamlets with over 98% of households using it. To achieve the set goal, contributing to poverty reduction and narrowing the development gap, efforts from many sides are needed, especially mobilizing resources with a total investment of about 2,128 billion VND. However, with such large resources, it will be very difficult to mobilize in the near future and a roadmap is needed. To facilitate investment in the power grid and avoid waste, local authorities also need to consider the option of concentrated residential planning, because a sparsely populated population will make it difficult to invest in the power grid system, due to the very large investment cost of the power grid system and transformer stations.
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