HANOI, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- New hydropower plants have been planned in Huaphan province of Laos to provide electricity for domestic demand as well as for neighboring Vietnam, the Lao newspaper Vientiane Times reported on Wednesday.
Huaphan province's electricity is currently provided by small local hydropower plants and about two megawatts is imported from Vietnam annually. Only 30 percent of households in the province can have access to electricity, said provincial Energy and Mines Department Manager Bouasone Thammaly.
"Once the province can generate enough electricity to satisfy local demand, it will cut energy imports from Vietnam and even supply electricity to Vietnam by 2020," said Bouasone.
It is expected major plants will have an installed generation capacity of 600 to 800 megawatts and smaller facilities will be capable of generating seven to eight megawatts. Project investors are expected to complete all preparation studies by 2010, said Bouasone.
Laos has the potential to generate about 26,500 megawatts from hydro sources, excluding the mainstream Mekong River. Less than two percent of the country's hydropower potential has been developed over the past 30 years, according to the Energy Promotion and Development Department of Lao Ministry of Energy and Mines.
Huaphan province's electricity is currently provided by small local hydropower plants and about two megawatts is imported from Vietnam annually. Only 30 percent of households in the province can have access to electricity, said provincial Energy and Mines Department Manager Bouasone Thammaly.
"Once the province can generate enough electricity to satisfy local demand, it will cut energy imports from Vietnam and even supply electricity to Vietnam by 2020," said Bouasone.
It is expected major plants will have an installed generation capacity of 600 to 800 megawatts and smaller facilities will be capable of generating seven to eight megawatts. Project investors are expected to complete all preparation studies by 2010, said Bouasone.
Laos has the potential to generate about 26,500 megawatts from hydro sources, excluding the mainstream Mekong River. Less than two percent of the country's hydropower potential has been developed over the past 30 years, according to the Energy Promotion and Development Department of Lao Ministry of Energy and Mines.
5 comments:
maybe cambodia should build one, too, right on the mekong river! what do ya think?
1:45AM, the plant is to build where water flows down sharpely with great froce, mostly in mountainous area. That's why we're having constructions in Kampot (Kamchay river) and Kampong Speu. Can you point out a place like this on Mekong river in Cambodia?
Go and read more boy, don't waste your times.
hanoi want to build everything they need on their neighbor territory.
time for them to stop the bs
Hope Laos cans provides Cambodia with enough electricity in the future.
Hanoi is a fat leech, the only way to kill leeches is to burn them with fire. Then again Vietnam is a coastal country, let nature exterminate them for us.
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