Nghe An ensures adequate electricity supply during peak periods in 2024 and subsequent years
The Provincial People's Committee assigned the Department of Industry and Trade to preside over and coordinate with relevant agencies to regularly monitor, urge, advise and direct the implementation of ensuring adequate electricity supply during peak periods in 2024 and the following years in the province in a timely and effective manner.
Nghe An Provincial People's Committee has just issued a document on the implementation of the Notice of Conclusion of the Government Standing Committee on the situation of ensuring adequate electricity supply during peak periods in 2024 and the following years and the effective implementation of the Plan to implement the VIII Power Plan.
Accordingly, after receiving Notice No. 244/TB-VPCP dated May 25, 2024 of the Government Office on the conclusion of the Government Standing Committee on the situation of ensuring adequate electricity supply during peak periods in 2024 and the following years and the effective implementation of the Plan to implement the VIII Power Plan, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Hong Vinh commented as follows:
Assign relevant departments, branches, localities and units according to their functions and tasks to study the contents of Notice No. 244/TB-VPCP dated May 25, 2024 of the Government Office and based on the assigned tasks in Official Dispatch No. 3173/UBND-CN dated April 23, 2024 of the Provincial People's Committee to implement effectively, promptly and in accordance with regulations.
The Department of Industry and Trade shall preside over and coordinate with relevant agencies to regularly monitor, urge, advise and direct the implementation of ensuring adequate electricity supply during peak periods in 2024 and the following years in the province in a timely and effective manner.
Previously, the Government Office issued Notice No. 244/TB-VPCP conveying the concluding opinion of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on the situation of ensuring adequate electricity supply during peak periods in 2024 and the following years and the effective implementation of the Plan to implement the VIII Power Plan.
The concluding announcement stated that the Prime Minister highly appreciated the preparation of meeting documents of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the State Capital Management Committee at Enterprises, and the Vietnam Electricity Group on the situation of ensuring sufficient electricity production and supply for people's production and consumption during peak periods of May, June, and July 2024 and the following years, and the active implementation of the Plan to implement the VIII Power Plan with a high sense of responsibility to propose specific, clear, and highly feasible solutions.
In particular, we overcame a record heat wave in the past 50 years at the end of April, with the highest daily electricity consumption reaching 993 million kWh (up 23.1% over the same period in 2023), and the national electricity consumption capacity (Pmax) reaching a new peak of 47,670 MW (up 13.2% over the same period in 2023).
However, the national power system still operates safely, without power outages or power cuts due to power shortages.
In the first quarter of 2024 and the months of April and May, the economy continued to change positively, growing at 5.66%, the highest in the 2020-2023 period, leading to electricity consumption demand being forecast to continue to increase beyond the forecast compared to the set plan (the whole country increased by 13%, higher than the 9% forecast plan, the North alone increased by a record of up to 17% compared to the same period in 2023).
In the spirit of high determination, absolutely not to let there be a shortage of electricity for production, business and people's lives in any case, the Prime Minister requested relevant ministries, branches, localities and enterprises to make more efforts, be more determined, absolutely not be subjective, negligent, closely forecast the situation, be ready to prepare for the worst possible scenarios to have a plan to ensure electricity supply for production, business and people's consumption in the coming time, especially in June 2024 when the new 500 kV line 3 circuit is expected to be completed at the end of June.
Regarding specific solutions to ensure sufficient electricity supply for production, business and people's lives during peak periods in 2024 and the following years and the implementation of the results of the Plan to implement the VIII Power Plan, the Prime Minister requested: The Ministry of Industry and Trade shall preside over and coordinate with relevant ministries, agencies and EVN to diversify electricity sources, including research and consideration of imports if necessary, at the same time, make the most of domestic electricity sources; effectively coordinate sources including coal-fired thermal power, hydropower, solar power, wind power, biomass power... power plants must calculate appropriate maintenance and repair times and absolutely not let coal-fired power plants and other power sources have incidents due to causes other than force majeure.
