Homegrown hydropower plant begins operation
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(VOVworld) – The Lai Chau hydropower plant was inaugurated on Tuesday in Nam Nhun district, Lai Chau province. The power plant bears the stamp of Vietnamese engineers from design to construction, installation, and operation.
The Lai Chau hydropower plant |
The Lai Chau hydropower plant with a total capacity of 1,200MW has officially connected to the national grid. Nguyen Thanh Oai, Deputy Director of contractor LILAMA 10 Joint Stock Company, say they have given 3 turbines a test run to ensure safety and put them into operation ahead of schedule. “LILAMA 10 has built many electric plants, including the Hoa Binh, Yaly, Sem 3, Sem 4, Pray Crong, and Son La power plants. The turbines at the Lai Chau power plant are more modern, which means higher precision. Vietnamese engineers and workers are competent to handle it.” Oai said.
The control center of the Lai Chau hydropower plant |
Engineers in the control center are all under 30. They mastered the advanced equipment at a technology transfer course. Engineer Nguyen Van Tiep is Head of the Operations section of Son La Hydropower Company: “All facilities have been operating stably. The staff is capable of managing the whole assembly. The plant has furnished 3.8 billion kW/h of electricity to the national grid.”
The Lai Chau Hydropower Plant, the third biggest in Southeast Asia, was put into operation a year ahead of schedule. Together with the Hoa Binh and Son La hydropower plants on the Da river, they will feed 23 billion kW/h of electricity to the national grid annually.
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