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The plant will use imported coal to generate over 12 billion kWh a year, which will help ease power shortages in the southern region.— File Photo
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BINH THUAN (Biz Hub)— The Vinh Tan 3 Energy Joint Stock Company (VTEC) has teamed up with the Chinese Harbin Electric Company to build the US$1.1 billion Vinh Tan 3 coal-fired thermal power plant in central Binh Thuan Province.
At a contract-signing ceremony in Ha Noi on Monday, Hoang Quoc Vuong, chairman of Viet Nam Electricity (EVN) said the plant will consist of three turbine groups with a capacity of 1,980MW.
The plant will use imported coal to generate over 12 billion kWh a year, which will help ease power shortages in the southern region.
Construction would start in the third quarter of 2014, and the plant's first turbine was expected to go into operation in 2018, he said. — VNS