Vietnam Power Supply to be Stable after First Week of July: Ministry
Vietnam’s power supply will become stable when the first week of July is over upon the stable operations of new coal-fired power plants and the increase in the water levels of hydropower lakes as a result of more rainfalls, the Ministry of Industry and Trade forecast.
From now through end-June, the national power demand will likely not rise sharply but tend to be lower than end-May and early June thanks to cooler weather in the northern and central regions and more rains in the southern region.
Almost all repairs at thermal power turbines in northern Vietnam have been completed, and turbines 1 of the Cam Pha, Haiphong, Quang Ninh and Son Dong thermal power plants have resumed operations, which helps boost national power supply, the ministry attributed.
The ministry forecast power cuts at 6% by end-June while requesting the state-run Electricity of Vietnam Group (EVN) to mobilize all available sources to ensure power supply for the national economy.
Meanwhile, Minister of Education and Training on June 23 called for no power cuts during the coming university entrance exams.
Earlier, the national power supply is forecast to be improved after June 20 but the situation has not much been changed and EVN, the country’s sole power distributor, blamed it for low generation capacity of hydropower plants triggered by the water shortfall.
The Southeast Asian country is forecast to lack one billion kWh of electricity this year. (Liberated Saigon)
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