Efforts made to speed up progress of expanded Hoa Binh hydropower project

8/20/2021 - 2:14:28 PM

(HBO) – Contractors and workers are racing with time by working day and night to complete a number of items of the expanded Hoa Binh hydropower project in 10 days before Hoa Binh water level rises, avoiding harms to the work.

Representatives from the Power Project Management Unit No.1 and contractors inspect the progress of the expanded Hoa Binh hydropower project.

The expanded Hoa Binh hydropower project is a national major project which was launched following an order by the Prime Minister on January 10, 2021. The project has two turbines with capacity of 480MW each. It is expected to generate nearly 900 million kWh of electricity each year after becoming operational. The project includes digging 3.8 million cu.m of soil and rocks, and 370,000 cu.m of concrete, and installing 15,000 tonnes of equipment.

Currently, the bidding package No.1 is being underway with total contract value of over 3 trillion VND.

Colonel Tran Ngoc Tuan, Director of the Board of Directors of the construction contractor joint venture, said that in the current stage, the construction of a dyke around water intake gate in upstream of Hoa Binh Reservoir and the foundation of the plant at elevation of 31m are among extremely important items that must be completed as scheduled. Therefore, contractors are working hard to ensure their progress.

According to Vice Director of the Power Project Management Unit No.1 and Executive Director of the project Pham Thanh Hoai, once completed, the expanded Hoa Binh hydropower project is expected to increase the power supply capacity of the national power grid, creating favourable conditions to optimise the Hoa Binh hydropower plant’s annual discharged water in the flood season for power generation, improving the frequency regulation and frequency stability of the national power system, contributing to cutting the system cost, reducing the working intensity of existing turbines, thus prolonging the equipment's longevity and saving maintenance and repair costs.

For Hoa Binh, the construction of the project has helped create jobs for local firms and labourers. Its operation will help increase State budget revenue of Hoa Binh every year. Particularly, the project will help connect An Duong Vuong street in Thai Binh ward of Hoa Binh city with new Ba Cap Port, thus boosting tourism and waterway transport development in the Hoa Binh Reservoir basin area./.

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