First biomass plant project licensed in Phu Tho

HCMC – Authorities in the northern province of Phu Tho have awarded an investment certificate to develop a biomass power plant in Phong Chau Town of Phu Ninh District.

The project with a generation output of 40MW or about 330 million kWh a year is invested by the Vietnam Hi-tech Biomass Joint Stock Co., the Vietnam News Agency reports.

The project will use rice straws, corn stalks and other bio materials as feedstock for the power plant, which helps reduce environment pollution. The news agency reports that the project will use modern technologies from G8 countries.

The project needs some VND1.16 trillion in investment capital.

Ho Dai Dung, deputy director of the provincial Department of Planning and Investment, said that the project would be operational in 2013 and create nearly 3,500 jobs for locals.

Besides, the project will help farmers of the province to earn more from agricultural organic wastes and other garbage in rural areas.

According to experts, the use of such materials as fuel is not only environmentally friendly as it releases less CO2 when burnt than fossil fuels do, but also helps bring stable income to farmers in the country.

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Thermal power plant dedicated

TRA VINH — Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong attended the ground-breaking ceremony yesterday for Tra Vinh Province's Duyen Hai 1 Thermal Power Plant, which he believed would play an integral role in ensuring the country's power demand for socio-economic development by 2015.

Trong, speaking at the ceremony, affirmed that the plant's construction was encouraging for the development of the southwestern region and for investments in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta area.

The Electricity of Viet Nam Group (EVN), which invested US$1.57 billion in the plant, and the contractor, Dongfang Electric Power Corporation (China), were asked to carry out their commitments, ensure rapid construction and engage in only environmentally-sound practices.

The plant offers a total installed capacity of 1,245MW, with an average output power from 7.5 to 8 billion kWh per year, using coal fuel and thermal power technology consistent with Viet Nam's antraxit coal. The plant will also meet all criteria regarding productivity, stability, safety and environmental protection.

According to Trong, by 2010's close, the Government will invest in the construction of Co Chien Bridge, which would link Ben Tre and Tra Vinh provinces, in order to facilitate further development of the region. The bridge is expected to be finished within in three years.

The EVN launched three other projects this year, including Nghi Son Oil Refinery, Song Bung 2 Hydropower Project and Vinh Tan 2 Thermal Power Plant. —VNS

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Tra Vinh has new thermo-electric power plant

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong on Sept. 19 issued an order to
build the Duyen Hai 1 thermo-electric power plant in the Mekong delta
province of Tra Vinh.

At the ground-breaking ceremony, Deputy PM Trong emphasised the significance of the project in socio-economic development.

The plant is part of the power centre which is expected to help boost
regional socio-economic development and attract more investors to Tra
Vinh province and the Mekong delta region as a whole, he said.

The deputy PM assigned the project’s investor, EVN, to ensure the
construction pace and asked local authorities to speed up site clearance
and pay attention to the living conditions of local people, especially
ethnic Khmer people.

He also said the Government
will build the Co Chien bridge in Tra Vinh province at the end of the
year and the construction of the bridge is expected to last for three
years.

Chairman of the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN)
Dao Van Hung said that this is one of three plants of the Duyen Hai
Power Centre which has a combined capacity of almost 4,500 MW and a
combined investment of around 5 billion USD.

The
1,245MW plant has an investment capital of 1.57 billion USD, of which 85
percent is sourced from the Import-Export Bank of China.

The first turbine of the plant is expected to be operational in September 2014 and the second two months later.

The plant will consume around 3.5 million tonnes of anthracite to produce around 7.2 billion kWh per year./.

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Honda Viet Nam opens new auto showrooms

DONG NAI — Honda Viet Nam Co Ltd and Tuyet Tan Phat Auto Co Ltd opened its third auto centre, Bien Hoa Honda, in the southern Dong Nai Province.

There are now eight auto centres in the country.

Bien Hoa Honda is located at Amata Industrial Park in Bien Hoa City. The centre covers 6,000sq.m. that includes a showroom, services and a warehouse.

Wind power plant to break ground in Bac Lieu

BAC LIEU — Construction of the first wind power plant in Viet Nam's Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta started on September 9 at Binh Dong A hamlet in southern Bac Lieu Province.

The 500-ha wind power plant will have 66 wind turbines that will produce 310 million KWh per year.

Cong Ly Construction-Trade-Tourism Ltd Co is investing VND4.5 trillion into the project. The plant will be finished in the next 36 months.

Jetstar Pacific offers cheap fares on domestic flights

HCM CITY — The low-cost airline Jetstar Pacific is offering 1,000 tickets on the HCM City-Ha Noi-HCM City for VND100,000 each on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Ha Noi.

The promotion began on September 9 and will end October 10. Every week, there will be 200 tickets on sale on the website www.jetstar.com on a random day. Customers must register and pay for the ticket with a credit card.

FPT to distribute Siemens production software

HCM CITY — FPT Information System Soft has become the official distributor in Viet Nam for Siemens Teamcentre Product Lifecycle Management Software (PLM), the world's most widely used PLM system.

The Teamcentre software connects people in global-product development and manufacturing organisations with the product and process knowledge they need to succeed.

The software helps enterprises increase productivity, speed up time to market, meet business and regulatory requirements, optimise operational resources, and facilitate global collaboration.

Local advertising creatives to vie for Young Lions title

HCM CITY – Young Vietnamese who work in the advertising and marketing industry will take part in the Viet Nam Young Lions Competition 2011, which is part of an international competition that will end next year.

The Sun Flower company is the official representative in Viet Nam for the Cannes Lions International Festival.

The competition has three categories: print, film and media.

To participate, each team, including two members aged 18-28, must send no more than five print advertisements or television commercials and three submissions on media strategy to the organising committee before October 1. Information is available at www.sunflowermedia.com.vn. — VNS

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Vietnam's largest hydropower plant progresses smoothly

The rotor of the first turbine of the Son La hydro-power plant has been successfully installed

Engineers on Friday successfully installed the rotor of the first turbine of the Son La Hydropower Plant to enable the country’s largest plant of its kind to start running on December 25 as scheduled.

With a diameter of 15.589 meters, a height of 2.816 meters, and weighing 1,000 tons, it is the heaviest rotor of hydro-electric power plants in Vietnam.

According to the Son La plant management board, the rotor installation will be followed by a test run of equipment of the plant’s auxiliary systems in the next two months.

The first turbine group will undergo a test run from November 15 to 30 before generating power on December 25, 2010 as planned.

The Son La power plant has six turbines designed to have a combined capacity of 2,400 MW.

As many as 17,996 households in Son La, Dien Bien and Lai Chau provinces have relocated to give land to the Son La plant, which has a total investment capital of over VND42.47 trillion ($2.2 billion).

The power plant is expected to be completed by 2012.

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