The Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) has been warned not to allow power shortages to happen thisyear according to Deputy Minister Hoang Trung Hai's Government Office Communiqué 22/TB-VPCP.
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Apart from ensuring adequate power supplies for socioeconomic development and people’s daily lives in 2014, Deputy Minister Hoang Trung Hai also asked EVN to well implement possible solutions to meet higher power demand in case the economy records more growth than expected and must not let power shortage happen like what it did in previous years.
EVN General Director Pham Le Thanh said in 2013 EVN fulfilled its task to provide adequate power supplies for socioeconomic development with increasingly high quality and the power system always had backup capacity. Also in 2013, nearly 2,500 MW was added to the power system, many electricity transmission grid and distribution works were put into operation. By the end of last year, water storage at hydroelectric lakes had reached the approximately normal level. These are basic conditions for EVN to accomplish its power production and supply tasks in 2014
The Deputy Prime Minister also asked the power plants under EVN and power generating companies to ensure operation, maintenance and repair quality, limit to a minimum maintenance and repair works of thermal power units in six months of the dry season. The hydroelectric plants in coordination with localities will manage power generation, control flood, supply water and promote the useful effects of the works. EVN will prepare conditions in terms of grid infrastructure, information technology, telecommunications, human resource training, organizational restructuring of corporations/companies to well participate in the electricity market, imminently the competitive wholesale market that will be piloted from 2015. The groups and corporations are expected to gradually become strong enterprises which can raise capital themselves in financial markets at home and abroad.
Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that investment capital must be mobilized for transmission projects and this should be considered as a breakthrough in the power transmission grid investment. Solutions to operate the 220 - 500kV transmission grids of the national electricity system need to be reviewed, especially electrical systems in the southern region.
EVN General Director Pham Le Thanh also said to “optimize costs and electricity for the southern region”, EVN determined to implement solutions to reduce power production, transmission and distribution costs; speed up some important projects supplying electricity to the south, the grid works connecting to these thermal-power centers and other urgent transmission and distribution projects in the south; connect power transmission between the northern and southern key economic regions to ensure stability for transmission systems throughout the country./.
(Source:VEN)
