Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) has just sent document No. 7486/EVN-KH+TTD to the Ministry of Industry and Trade regarding the policy of importing wind power projects from Lao PDR to Quang Tri province, Vietnam.
Vietnam can import wind power from Laos. Illustration photo: VNA
In this document, EVN proposed that the Ministry of Industry and Trade appraise and submit to the Prime Minister the policy of importing electricity from the Truong Son wind power plant, and supplement the planning of power lines for connection. The price of purchasing electricity from this project is 6.95 US cents/kWh, equivalent to about 1,700 VND/kWh.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry has sent a document requesting ministries, branches and localities to comment on the policy of purchasing wind power from the Truong Son wind power plant, with a capacity of 250 MW from Bolikhamsai province (Laos) to Vietnam as proposed by EVN.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade said that this plant will be put into operation in the fourth quarter of 2025. The investor committed to apply the electricity price with the ceiling price imported from Laos to Vietnam for this type of wind power plant at 6.95 US cents/kWh (equivalent to about 1,700 VND/kWh).
"To import electricity from this plant to Vietnam, a new 220 kV double-circuit line with a length of 75 km will be built from the 220 kV transformer station of Truong Son wind power plant to the 220 kV feeder at the 220 kV transformer station of Do Luong in Nghe An province, Vietnam," said the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
To meet the project completion schedule in 2025, the project investor - Viet Lao Energy Investment and Development Joint Stock Company has sent a document to EVN proposing to sell electricity from this project to Vietnam. Accordingly, the investor proposed to invest in the entire grid connection project to connect Truong Son wind power plant to Vietnam's electricity system using the project's capital.
Previously, in a report sent to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, EVN said: The governments of Laos and Vietnam have agreed to import a minimum of electricity from Laos to Vietnam by 2020 with a capacity of about 1,000 MW. The amount of imported electricity by 2025 is about 3,000 MW and by 2030 about 5,000 MW. As of the end of October, the Prime Minister has approved the policy of importing electricity from sources in Laos with a total capacity of 2,689 MW.
“EVN has signed 19 power purchase agreements (PPAs) to purchase electricity from 26 Lao power plants with a total capacity of 2,240 MW. Of these, 7 projects have been put into commercial operation with a total capacity of 806 MW and it is expected that by 2025, an additional 1,171 MW can be put into operation,” said the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
According to the report, up to now, the total power capacity in Laos that has been approved for electricity import to Vietnam and can be put into operation by 2025 is only about 1,977 MW, much lower than the import scale according to the memorandum of understanding./.
Vu Hoa
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