NDO – On March 3, in Yen Bai, Vietnam Electricity (EVN) and Power Project Management Board 1 held a ceremony to launch the construction of the 500kV Lao Cai-Vinh Yen transmission line, the section passing through Yen Bai province. This is one of the national key projects, of strategic significance in ensuring energy security and improving the operation capacity of the national power system.

Delegates performed the ceremony to launch the construction of the 500kV Lao Cai-Vinh Yen transmission line, the section passing through Yen Bai province.

Delegates performed the ceremony to launch the construction of the 500kV Lao Cai-Vinh Yen transmission line, the section passing through Yen Bai province.

The launching ceremony was attended by leaders of Yen Bai province, relevant departments and branches, representatives of Party committees and authorities of Luc Yen and Yen Binh districts and a large number of people in the project area.

In addition, the ceremony was also attended by leaders of the Department of Industry - Government Office, the Department of Electricity and Renewable Energy - Ministry of Industry and Trade, relevant units of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and EVN, and representatives of the construction contractor - Song Da 11 Joint Stock Company.

The Lao Cai-Vinh Yen 500kV transmission line project is a double-circuit project with a total length of 229.5km, passing through 4 provinces: Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Phu Tho and Vinh Phuc. The project has a total investment of more than 7,410 billion VND, of which 80% is a loan from the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank), the remaining 20% ​​is EVN's counterpart capital.

Upon completion, this line will help release about 2,000MW of capacity from hydropower plants in the Northwest region and neighboring provinces to the national grid, increasing the ability to import electricity and reducing power loss in the system.

The section passing through Yen Bai province alone is 90.06km long, with 173 pole foundation locations (from VT102 to VT274), passing through 2 districts: Luc Yen and Yen Binh. The project contributes to ensuring energy sources for the province's medium and long-term development goals, increasing budget revenue, and creating job opportunities for local businesses and workers.

Notably, this is the groundbreaking ceremony for the first item of this line, undertaken by Song Da 11 Joint Stock Company, marking an important first step for the national key project.

The leader of Song Da 11 affirmed that in this project, the company will continue to promote the spirit of determination and participate strongly as it has done before to contribute to bringing the 500kV line 3, Quang Trach-Pho Noi, to the finish line at lightning speed before.

With extensive experience in power transmission projects, the representative of Song Da 11 emphasized that the company's officers and employees will devote all their efforts, mobilize maximum human resources and equipment, coordinate closely with investors and localities, commit to construction on schedule, ensure safety, quality and strictly comply with technical standards.

Deploying the construction of the 500KV Lao Cai-Vinh Yen line, the section through Yen Bai province, photo 2

EVN representative presented Yen Bai province with 100 million VND to support the province in eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses.

Speaking at the ceremony, the representative of EVN emphasized that during the preparation and implementation process, the project has received close attention and direction from the Government, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the State Capital Management Committee at Enterprises, along with close coordination from the provinces where the power line passes through and the solidarity and consensus of the people in the project area to speed up the progress of compensation, support and resettlement.

EVN also requested the leaders of Yen Bai province and departments and branches to continue to pay attention and support the compensation and resettlement work, and soon complete the handover of the entire site so that the construction unit can synchronously deploy the entire route.

At the same time, EVN assigned the Power Project Management Board 1 and contractors, including Song Da 11, to manage the project, organize construction to ensure compliance with standards on quality, environment, labor safety, focus resources and equipment to speed up progress, and strive to complete the project according to the set plan.

According to nhandan.vn