Vietnam's national grid to supply ethnic homes

The Northern Power Corporation will connect more than 30,000 ethnic households in northern mountainous Son La province to the national electricity grid.

Currently, about 54,000 households in the province still live without power supplies, accounting for 24 percent of the total population.

The project worth US$26.6 million will be implemented in three years and include the laying of more than 540 kilometres of 35-kV and 22-kV transmission lines and 875 kilometres of 0,4 kV line, as well as the building of 218 transformer stations and installation of electricity meters for each household.

Eighty-five percent of the project’s capital will be allocated from the State budget while the NPC, which operates under the Electricity of Vietnam, contributes the rest, according to the NPC director, Nguyen Phuc Vinh.

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