Meet customer needs in the summer

(Baonghean) -Since the beginning of the year, the weather has been favorable for power plants to operate, along with that, many more hydropower projects have come into production. According to the leader of Nghe An Electricity Company, in the coming time, the power source will be stable, the electricity industry will meet the needs of customers.

Currently, Nghe An Electricity Company has more than 520,000 customers, of which nearly 60% use electricity for consumption and lighting purposes, 30% for industrial production and 10% for other services. That uneven ratio has changed the load chart in different seasons of the year (in winter, only 3.5 million kWh/day is used, in summer, it is 6 million kWh/day). Therefore, Nghe An Electricity always has to have a plan to receive electricity and supply electricity appropriately for each specific period.

Generator set of Ban Ve Hydropower Plant

In the first quarter of 2012, when customers had high demand for electricity, Nghe An Electricity Company received nearly 328.5 million kWh and promptly met customers' electricity needs. The prolonged hot weather, sudden increase in demand will create great pressure on the electricity industry. To solve this situation, the electricity industry has planned to receive more than 401 million kWh. Mr. Bang Hong Hien - Deputy Director of Nghe An Electricity Company said: "To prepare all conditions well to serve customers during this peak season, along with planning to receive and supply electricity reasonably, the electricity industry also invested in replacing a number of large transformer stations at Nghe An transmission. At electricity distribution units, measures to rotate electricity and prevent overloading were implemented. All maintenance and repair work, periodic testing work were completed this April and thus will basically meet customers' electricity needs in the summer of 2012".

In the mountainous district of Ky Son, due to the sole power supply from the 110 transformer station in Hoa Binh Town, which was heavily affected by the 2011 flood, the construction of the power system structure is being actively completed (far from landslide-prone areas) and will gradually provide stable, good-quality power. In localities in the province, the demand for electricity is increasing, especially in some localities with complex weather and prolonged heat, but the quality of electricity is still low and the power supply is unstable. To gradually overcome this situation, the electricity sector is actively taking over the rural power system, thereby investing in and upgrading the system of stations, power grids, meters, etc. to improve the quality of electricity. Good news for customers in rural areas is that the electricity industry is actively preparing the necessary conditions to implement in the second quarter the project to improve the efficiency of the rural power grid, with a total investment capital of about 740 billion VND (capital from the German Reconstruction Bank). With this project, the quality of electricity in rural areas will be significantly improved in the coming time.

An advantage for Nghe An electricity industry is that in recent times, our province has had many open mechanisms and policies to attract investment projects in the field of hydropower development. Up to now, in the province, there are 32 hydropower projects that have been and are being implemented, of which 4 projects have generated electricity with a total capacity of 342.5 MW (Ban Ve 320 MW, Ban Coc 18 MW, Sao Va 3 MW, Ban Canh 1.5 MW). At Ban Ve Hydropower Plant, since the beginning of 2012, more than 286 million kWh has been connected to the national grid. In the coming time, a number of additional hydropower projects will be completed, contributing to ensuring a stable and high-quality power source to serve customers.

Hoang Vinh