Cambodia buys over 1 billion kwh of electricity from VN per year

Power group sells more to Cambodia

29-05-2009
VNS (Hanoi)

HA NOI — Viet Nam will sell more than 1 billion kWh of electricity per year to Cambodia, according to the Electricity of Viet Nam Group.

The latest electricity purchase amends a contract between the EVN and Cambodian utility Electricite Du Cambodge first signed in July 2000.

The amended agreement also calls for Viet Nam to build a transformer in Chau Doc in An Giang Province and more than 26km of line to deliver power from there to the Cambodian border. Cambodia, meanwhile, will lay more than 50km of line from the border to a 220kV transformer in Takeo Province, and another 46km to a 220kV transformer in the capital city of Phnom Penh.

Slow construction progress on the Cambodian side has delayed the completion of the project from 2003 to 2009, according to the group.

Cambodia's increasing dependence on Vietnamese electricity: 400,000 kwh purchased daily

Cambodia Signs New Deal To Buy Electricity From Vietnam

05-27-09

HANOI -(Dow Jones)- Cambodia signed a new contract Tuesday to buy electricity from neighboring Vietnam, Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade said Wednesday.

Under the contract signed between the Vietnam Electricity Group and the Electricite du Cambodge, Vietnam will sell electricity to Cambodia via a 220- kilovolt line from southern Vietnam to Phnom Penh, the ministry said.

The power line has been transmitting 400,000 kilowatt-hours to Phnom Penh daily since May 8, the ministry said, adding power transmission via the line will be raised to 1 billion kilowatt-hours a year in the near future.

Vietnam has been selling electricity to Cambodia via the same power line since 2002, but only to its border province of Takeo.

The new contract signed Tuesday comes after the line was extended to Cambodia's capital city earlier this year.

-By Vu Trong Khanh, Dow Jones Newswires

Vietnam ups power supplies to Cambodia

22/04/2009
VietNamNet/VNA

VietNamNet Bridge – Cambodia’s capital city, Phnom Penh, will receive additional electricity from Vietnam later this month or by early May, helping to ease the city’s shortage of power for both industrial and domestic use, said Deputy Director of the Electricity of Cambodia (EdC) Chan Sodavath.

According to him, work on a transmission line connecting Vietnam’s An Giang Province via Takeo Province to Phnom Penh has been completed and once it becomes operational in late April or by early next month, the new line is expected to double the amount of electricity that Phnom Penh can now access.

Cambodia signed an agreement to buy electricity from Vietnam in early 2008, under which Vietnam will provide 200 MW of electricity for the Cambodian capital.

At present, the total electricity output in Phnom Penh is only 190MW, mainly from thermal power plants.

EVN to provide electricity to Cambodia

30/03/2009
VietNamNet/VNA

VietNamNet Bridge – Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) and Electricity of Cambodia (EDC) will put into operation a 220kV power line on March 30, an important step towards effecting electricity sales to Cambodia, according to EVN Deputy General Director Dang Hoang An.

The Chau Doc (Vietnam) – Takeo (Cambodia) power line is part of an agreement signed in March 2003 between the two governments and a contract between EVN and EDC.

According to EVN, the line has a maximum transmitting capacity of 200MW.