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Vietnam assures no power cuts during dry season
( May 09, 2001 )

Hanoi (dpa) - Energy officials have assured that Vietnam will not suffer 
power cuts during its dry seasons despite falling water levels in major 
reservoirs, state media reported Wednesday.

The National Centre for Electricity Distribution said it so far has been 
able to meet average national demand of 86.1 million kWh per day, Vietnam 
News said.

The centre's director, Nguyen Binh Niem, said newly operational turbines in 
Yaly and Ham Thuan power plants in central Vietnam have added roughly five 
million kWh per day to the grid, the paper said.

But water in key reservoirs has been dropping steadily towards alarm 
levels, it added, with reserves at Vietnam's largest hydroelectric dam, Hoa 
Binh, just 12 metres higher than dead level, or a 61 per cent drop compared 
to the same period last year.

Other power plant reservoirs in southern provinces are just three or four 
metres above dead level, the newspaper added, and generating capacity will 
drop sharply if monsoon rains are late this year.

Rolling blackouts had been normal procedure in recent years as the country 
grappled with exploding energy consumption rates.
Power demand in modernising Vietnam is estimated to increase by 15 per cent 
this year, the newspaper said.

Several new power projects have come on stream recently, including the 
720-MW Phu My 1 gas-fired plant in Ba Ria Vung Tau province.

The plant will source gas from the offshore Nam Con Son gas field, which is 
to be exploited by a foreign consortium whose deal with the government was 
the biggest foreign investment contract in Vietnam.

dpa 


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