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dam-l LS: Can Don dam in Vietnam starts construction

Vietnam's First Bot Power Plant under Construction 

( May 09, 2000 ) 


HANOI, May 09, 2000 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- Construction began last
Friday on the 72-MW Can Don Hydropower Plant, on the Be River in Loc Ninh
and Phuoc Long districts of the southern Binh Phuoc Province. 

      The plant is the first in the country to be built with domestic
investment of about VND1,000 billion (US$80.6 million) made in the
build-operate-transfer (BOT) form. 

      It is expected to provide 30 million kWh of electricity a year. 

      The plant's investor and contractor - the Song Da Construction
Corporation - will build two generator groups with a designed capacity of
36MW each. 

      The construction package includes a 110kV power transmission station,
one major dam and auxiliary dams, spillway and culverts. 

      The Song Da Construction Corporation will sell electricity produced
by the Can Don Plant to the Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN) at 4.5 cents per
kWh under a 25-year-contract. 

      Investment capital is expected to be recouped after 14 years of
operating the plant, and the corporation will then transfer the plant in
good condition to EVN after 25 years, the corporation's deputy general
director Pham Xuan Tong told Viet Nam News Agency. 

      Can Don plant will supply power to surrounding region and help
stabilise power supply to the south in peak hours, Tong said. 

      In addition, the hydro-power complex will provide 350,000cu.m of
water a day to irrigate 4,800ha of cultivated land in Binh Phuoc's Loc Ninh
District. 

      With a stable water resource, the locality will be able to increase
its crop and develop aquaculture in the reservoir. 

      The two generator groups are scheduled to be on line by about May 2003. 

      In implementing the Can Don construction project, the Song Da
Construction Corporation becomes a project employer for the first time, in
charge of investment procedures, capital investment and design. 

      Chairman of the corporation's management board, Nguyen Khac Kien,
said BOT-built small and medium size power plants was an important new
direction in the corporation's development strategy. 

      He said more concentration was required on small and medium
hydro-power projects like Can Don as opposed to big ones like Hoa Binh in
the north and Yaly in the Central Highlands. 

      The corporation has started building another smaller project - the
8.1MW Ry Ninh Hydro-power Plant II in Se San River in Ya M'nong commune,
Chu Pa District of Gia Lai Province. 

      The corporation will spend an estimated VND130.8 billion (roughly $10
million) under the build-operate (BO) system on this small plant and is
expected to begin selling power to EVN by the second quarter of 2002 at 4.1
cents per kWh. 

      (VNA) s 

      

      




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