Monday, December 31, 2007

Cambodia to buy electricity from Vietnam and Laos

December 30, 2007 Sunday
Vietnamese News Agency (VNA)

Industry officials from Cambodia , Laos and Viet Nam have inked a deal on power cooperation.

Under the agreement signed on December 29, Cambodia will buy electricity from the Electricity of Viet Nam corporation (EVN) to provide to Kongpong Cham province and electricity from Laos for the northern province of Stung Treng.

To implement the contract, Laos plans to build a transformer station and 25 km of 115 kV line from Champasak province to the Laos-Cambodia border. Viet Nam will also build a 110 KV power line to transmit electricity from southern Tay Ninh province to the border area with Cambodia .

Meanwhile, Cambodia will build two 110 kV transmission lines. Work on the two lines will start in early 2008 and is expected to complete in 2010.

Viet Nam has provided annually 24 million kWh to Cambodia through nine points in the southern provinces of Tay Ninh, Kien Giang, An Giang, Binh Phuoc and Long An. Viet Nam and Laos have also agreed to join hands in building hydropower stations in Laos to provide electricity to Viet Nam . One of their cooperation projects, the Sekaman 3, with a capacity of 240 MW, has already been underway and will start operation in 2009.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Vietcong government will make the money, AH HUN SEN government will make the money, and the Vietcong slave middlemen will make the money and dirt poor Cambodian people suppose to get affordable electricity. Aahahhaa!

Just watch those electric meters closely because dirt poor Cambodian people don't have a choice when it come to pay for basic services such water, electricity, and healthcare, education, housing,...

Anonymous said...

Cambodia must not buy electicity from vietnam and Laos.
It must be developped but slowly.
Cambodians can use the candle light for the moment and we will make electricity by ourselves .

Anonymous said...

Vet Nam not sell only electricity but also girls to Cambodia.
Ask Hun Sen id he knows anything about Svay Pak exchange market?