(HBO) – Contractors and workers are racing with time by working day and night to complete a number of items of the expanded Hoa Binh hydropower project in 10 days before Hoa Binh water level rises, avoiding harms to the work.
Representatives from the Power Project
Management Unit No.1 and contractors inspect the progress of the expanded Hoa
Binh hydropower project.
The expanded Hoa Binh hydropower project is a national major project which was
launched following an order by the Prime Minister on January 10, 2021. The
project has two turbines with capacity of 480MW each. It is expected to
generate nearly 900 million kWh of electricity each year after becoming
operational. The project includes digging 3.8 million cu.m of soil and
rocks, and 370,000 cu.m of concrete, and installing 15,000 tonnes of
equipment.
Currently, the bidding package No.1 is being underway with total contract value
of over 3 trillion VND.
Colonel Tran Ngoc Tuan, Director of the Board of Directors of the construction
contractor joint venture, said that in the current stage, the construction of a
dyke around water intake gate in upstream of Hoa Binh Reservoir and the
foundation of the plant at elevation of 31m are among extremely important items
that must be completed as scheduled. Therefore, contractors are working hard to
ensure their progress.
According to Vice Director of the Power Project Management Unit No.1 and
Executive Director of the project Pham Thanh Hoai, once completed, the expanded
Hoa Binh hydropower project is expected to increase the power supply capacity
of the national power grid, creating favourable conditions to optimise the Hoa
Binh hydropower plant’s annual discharged water in the flood season for power
generation, improving the frequency regulation and frequency stability of the
national power system, contributing to cutting the system cost, reducing the
working intensity of existing turbines, thus prolonging the equipment's
longevity and saving maintenance and repair costs.
For Hoa Binh, the construction of the project has helped create jobs for local
firms and labourers. Its operation will help increase State budget revenue of
Hoa Binh every year. Particularly, the project will help connect An Duong Vuong
street in Thai Binh ward of Hoa Binh city with new Ba Cap Port, thus boosting
tourism and waterway transport development in the Hoa Binh Reservoir basin
area./.
After several unsuccessful attempts to raise pigs, buffaloes and cows, Nguyen Hong Minh who resides in Mui hamlet, Hoa Binh city’s Doc Lap commune decided to try breeding bamboo rat.
Chairman of the Hoa Binh People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh on February 2 held a Lunar New Year meeting with businesses, investors and cooperation in the locality. The event drew Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council Bui Duc Hinh; Vice President of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hoang Quang Phong; representatives from the Vietnam Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Vietnam Association of Young Entrepreneurs; as well as leaders of local departments, sectors and localities and 200 local businesses, cooperatives and investors in the locality.
Following the successes achieved in 2023, the local agricultural and rural development sector, localities and cooperatives are gearing up for first orders of the year, as part of their efforts to boost agricultural exports.
Most workers at enterprises in the northern province of Hoa Binh have turned to work just one week after the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.
The Hoa Binh Power Corporation (PC Hoa Binh) has directed its units to build plans as well as arrange resources to ensure stable electricity for local winter-spring crop production.
On February 28, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Hoa Binh province coordinated with Minh Trung Vietnam Group joint Stock Company, Hoa Binh branch in Luong Son industrial park, Luong Son district organized a ceremony to export Bat Bao lotus porridge to the Japanese.