Nghe An province and Electricity Group agree on many contents on infrastructure construction and electricity supply.

Overview of the working session between Nghe An Provincial People's Committee and Vietnam Electricity Group. Photo: Pham Bang

Working with EVN, on the side of Nghe An province, there were comrades: Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; relevant departments, branches and localities.

On the side of Vietnam Electricity Group, there were comrades: Tran Dinh Nhan - General Director of EVN; leaders of relevant departments and units of EVN, Nghe An Electricity Company, Nghe An Power Transmission.

At the meeting, Mr. Tran Dinh Nhan - General Director of EVN said that the growth rate of commercial electricity in the past 5 years in Nghe An province reached 13.78%, higher than the national average (9%). In 2020 alone, due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, the growth rate of commercial electricity in the whole country was 3%, but Nghe An increased to 10%.

Mr. Tran Dinh Nhan - General Director of EVN spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Up to now, 100% of communes in the province have had electricity, the number of households with electricity reached 98.8%. For the rural electricity supply project from the national grid of Nghe An province (under the 2081 Program invested by EVNPC), phase 1 has been completed with a total cost of more than 206 billion VND.

Regarding EVN's investment projects in Nghe An province, there are 10 500kV and 220kV projects with a total investment of 4,200 billion VND. In particular, the connection line to release the capacity of Nghi Son 2 Power Plant. In addition, EVN is implementing 11 110kV grid projects, with a total investment of 900 billion VND.

Nghe An Electricity Company is upgrading the power grid infrastructure. Photo courtesy

"EVN is ready to meet all electricity requirements for the socio-economic development of Nghe An province," Mr. Nhan affirmed, saying that Nghe An province is one of three provinces with a commercial electricity growth rate of over 2 digits, so EVN has directed the Northern Power Corporation and Nghe An Power Company to proactively grasp the province's development needs to meet electricity supply, without any refusal.

At the meeting, EVN leaders presented the difficulties in implementing power supply projects in the province. Representatives of Nghe An provincial departments, branches and localities reported and responded to EVN's recommendations.

Mr. Pham Hong Phuong - Deputy General Director of EVN Group spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Mr. Pham Van Hoa - Director of the Department of Industry and Trade said that although Nghe An is a province with high electricity output, it can be said that the quality of electricity serving production and consumption does not meet the requirements, connecting electricity to factories in industrial parks is still difficult; besides, there are still 91 villages and hamlets not included in the plan to be supplied with electricity.

The Director of the Department of Industry and Trade requested EVN to pay attention to upgrading and renovating the medium and low voltage grid, because the grid system is currently degraded; consider allocating funds to support compensation work for site clearance related to the Ban Ve Hydropower project.

Mr. Pham Van Hoa - Director of the Department of Industry and Trade spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Speaking at the meeting, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Ngoc Hoa said that in the coming time, there will be many investors investing in Nghe An province. Therefore, the demand for electricity for production and business is very large.

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee hopes that EVN will pay attention to providing electricity to industrial parks, especially Hoang Mai 1 Industrial Park, to help the province attract investors to this industrial park.

At the same time, in the coming time, it is necessary to review the load forecast at industrial parks in the province to allocate additional transformer stations in the coming period, to avoid being passive when calling for investors; At the same time, pay attention to supplying electricity to mountainous and border areas, because in the coming period, the province is interested in developing the socio-economy of the West, contributing to ensuring national defense and security.

Comrade Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

Speaking at the meeting, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung said that the meeting aimed to promptly resolve problems and difficulties for both sides, helping Nghe An province and EVN have conditions to develop in the coming time.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung thanked Vietnam Electricity Group and its member units for their attention and implementation of investment projects in the area in recent times, providing electricity to help Nghe An province develop, as well as ensuring people's lives. At the same time, he highly appreciated EVN's commitment to fully meet electricity needs for production and people's lives in Nghe An province.

Responding to EVN's recommendations, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the People's Committee of Thai Hoa Town to preside over and coordinate with the investor, construction contractor and relevant parties to complete the procedures to protect the construction and hand over the site for the 500kV transmission line project connecting Nghi Son 2 Power Plant.on schedule, starting from March 23. The Provincial People's Committee Office completes and submits to the Provincial People's Committee leaders for approval the land use plan for the 220kV Tuong Duong transformer station project, before March 23.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting. Photo: Pham Bang

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also assigned the Department of Industry and Trade to preside over and coordinate with the People's Committee of Do Luong district, departments and branches to unify the route of the 220kV Do Luong - Nam Cam line and report to the Provincial People's Committee to have a written agreement to complete before March 31, 2021; the Department of Industry and Trade to preside over and coordinate with the Department of Construction and related units to unify the route of the 500kV Vung Ang 3 - Quynh Lap line, and report to the Provincial People's Committee to have a written agreement before March 31.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also gave specific comments on the recommendations of EVN Group related to the projects: 220kV Tuong Duong - Do Luong line; 500kV Quynh Lap Thermal Power Plant - Thanh Hoa line;220kV Nam Sum - Nong Cong; 220kV Nam Mo - Tuong Duong line; 110kV Tan Ky transformer station and connection...

At the meeting, Nghe An province and EVN also agreed on the following contents: EVN will pay attention to supplying electricity to the province's key projects in Hoang Mai 1 Industrial Park, WHA Industrial Park; arrange funding to upgrade the medium and low voltage power grid system; arrange funding to bury the power grid system in Vinh city according to appropriate routes and streets; provide electricity to villages and hamlets without electricity; provide electricity to 51 households in Luong Minh commune (Tuong Duong) related to compensation for site clearance of Ban Ve Hydropower project; pay attention to relocating power lines to implement the North-South expressway project passing through Nghe An province.