12 Largest hydroelectric plants in Vietnam

With a high economic growth rate and the demand for electricity use increase on average more than 10% per year. To meet the demand of electricity for living and labor, the state has developed and developed large hydroelectric plants. Let us review the largest hydroelectric plants in Vietnam.

1. Son La hydroelectric power plant

Son La Hydroelectric Plant is the largest hydroelectric plant in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Built on December 2, 2005, on the Da River in Little Ong Commune, Muong La District, Son La Province with the guidance of foreign experts from Russia, Europe, and China to supervise and contribute additionally. Adding strict standards.

On December 23, 2012, Son La hydropower project officially inaugurated became the largest hydroelectric dam in Southeast Asia with a peak height of 228.1 m; 961.6 m long; width of the dam bottom 105 m; top width 10 m. The capacity of the hydroelectric reservoir is 9.26 billion m3, with a total installed capacity of 2,400 MW, the average annual electricity output of 10 billion kW, equal to nearly 1/10 of Vietnam's electricity output in 2012.

2. Hoa Binh Hydroelectric Plant

Hoa Binh Hydroelectric Plant is built at Hoa Binh Lake, Hoa Binh Province, on the Da River in northern Vietnam. Before the opening of the Son La hydroelectric plant, this was the largest hydroelectric plant in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. The Soviet-assisted factory built and operated.

The hydropower plant was inaugurated in 1994, with a generating capacity of 1,920 MW, including 8 units, each with a capacity of 240 MW. The annual electricity output is 8.16 billion KWh. Hoa Binh Hydroelectricity Plant was honored in the program 'Glorious Vietnam - Imprint of works' (July 2018).

3. Lai Chau Hydroelectric Plant

Lai Chau Hydropower Plant is a key national project of Vietnam, built on the main stream of Da River in Nam Hang commune, Muong Te district, Lai Chau province, Vietnam. Lai Chau Hydropower has a total installed capacity of 1,200 MW with 3 units, starting construction on January 5, 2011, grid connected to three units in November 2016, inaugurated in December 2016, one year earlier than with targets set by the National Assembly.

This project is built on the top step of the Da River main stream in Vietnam, the upper step of the Son La hydroelectric is under construction. This work has a total preliminary investment of more than VND 35700 billion. Lai Chau Hydroelectric Plant will provide about 4,670.8 million kWh to the national grid each year.

This is a hydroelectric project that not only plays an important role in the development of electricity and water supply for the Red River Delta in the dry season but also creates opportunities for socio-economic development in Lai Chau and Dien Bien provinces, ensuring security and defense of the Northwest region. Lai Chau Hydroelectric Plant is on the top step of the Da River in Vietnam, bordering China. With a design of 295 meters of dam level will ensure the water level is about 15 - 20 km from the border, but when the water is floating or there are floods, the flood is only about 2 km from the border.

4. Yaly hydroelectric plant

Yaly hydroelectric plant is one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the Central Highlands. Yaly belongs to hydropower ladder system on Sesan river, with an area of ​​20 km2 located adjacent to Chu Pah district (Gia Lai province) and Sa Thay district (Kon Tum province).

With a total installed capacity of 720 MW and the average annual electricity output is 3.68 billion KWh. Construction began in 1993 and completed in 1996. This is the largest hydroelectric project in Vietnam, not only that, the reservoir here is also a great landscape. Therefore, this place has become one of Gia Lai tourist destinations quite attractive to tourists from near and far when having the opportunity to Gia Lai.

5. Huoi Quang Hydroelectric Plant

Huoi Quang hydropower plant came into operation soon, creating great efficiency, taking advantage of the water source with a useful capacity of 1.7 billion m3 of water of Ban Chat hydropower lake. Huoi Quang Hydropower Plant consists of 2 units with a total installed capacity of 520MW (2 x 260), which is the first underground hydropower plant designed and constructed by Vietnam with 2 underground water tunnels in the mountains, each 4.2 km long tunnel, 7.5m diameter, generators are located underground in the mountains.

This is one of the major constructions under the planning of hydropower ladder on the Da river system, after Son La Hydroelectricity (2,400MW), Hoa Binh Hydroelectricity (1,920MW) and Lai Chau Hydroelectricity (1,200MW).

6. Tri An Hydroelectric Plant

Tri An Hydroelectric Power Plant is built on Dong Nai River, 65 km northeast of Ho Chi Minh City. Tri An hydropower project has an economic significance integrated with the main purpose of joining the national grid together with other plants to supply electricity to the national load. In addition, as a multi-purpose hydropower project, the project also ensures water for domestic use, agriculture, salinity push and flood control .

The plant was built with the financial and technological support of the Soviet Union in 1984, inaugurated and put into use in 1991. With 4 units, a design capacity of 400 KW, average power output about 1.7 billion KWh.

7. Ham Thuan - Da Mi hydroelectric plant

Ham Thuan - Da Mi hydropower plant is a hydroelectricity complex located on La Nga river in Dong Nai river basin. The work was started construction in 1997 and put into operation in 2001, with a capacity of 300 MW with 2 units. The plant's water reservoir is located in Lam Dong and Binh Thuan provinces with the lake surface at normal water level rise of 605 m, about 25.2 km2, capacity of 695 million m3.

The project has a tunnel system with a total length of 7,765 m. The main dam is excavated and filled with rubble, with a height of 93.5 m, the length of the crest is 686 m. In addition to the main dam there are 4 sub-dams filled with soil.

8. Na Hang hydroelectric plant (Tuyen Quang)

Tuyen Quang Hydropower Plant is one of the country's key constructions in Na Hang district, Tuyen Quang province with a total investment of VND 7,500 billion. The dam of the project is a first-class concrete-reinforced concrete dam that has been built in Vietnam. The dam is nearly 100 m high.

Na Hang hydropower plant is located on Gam river basin, in Vinh Yen commune, Na Hang Town, Tuyen Quang. The project is the pride of Na Hang people in particular and all Tuyen Quang people in general. Na Hang hydropower plant officially entered the national grid in 2008.

This is the third largest hydroelectric plant (342 MW) of the North after the Son La and Hoa Binh hydroelectric plants.

9. Ba Ha river hydroelectric plant

Ba Ba Ha Hydropower is located at the last step on the Ba River ladder - one of the largest hydroelectric power plants in the Central region planned in 15 mountainous communes of Song Hinh district (Phu Yen province) and district. Krong Ba (Gia Lai province). The construction was located about 70 kilometers west of the provincial capital of Phu Yen. This project is implemented under a special mechanism of the Prime Minister, thus shortening the schedule by one and a half years compared to the original plan.

Ba Ha River Hydroelectric Plant has two units with a capacity of 220 MW, an average electricity output of 825 million Kwh / year, total investment of VND 4,275 billion expected to be generated in 2007 and completed in 2008.

In addition to generating electricity for the national electricity grid, the Ba Ha Hydropower Project also participates in flood reduction for the Phu Yen delta in the lower Ba River, creating favorable conditions for socio-economic development. area.

10. Trung Son Hydroelectric Plant

Trung Son Hydropower Plant is built on the Ma River in the Northwest region of Vietnam, located in Trung Son Commune, Quan Hoa District, Thanh Hoa Province. The power plant has an installed capacity of 260 MW, including 4 generating units producing 1,018.61 million kWh annually which is a significant supplement to the national grid.

This is a multi-purpose project that both provides electricity and helps control floods, and contributes to the climate change program in Vietnam by avoiding CO2 emissions. The project is supported by the World Bank and is implemented by the investor, Trung Son Hydropower Company Limited of Power Generation Corporation 2 (GENCO2) of Vietnam Electricity (EVN).

11. Thac Mo Hydroelectric Plant

Thac Mo Hydroelectricity Plant is a hydroelectric plant on Be river, located in Duc Han commune, Bu Gia Map district, Binh Phuoc province. Started construction in late 1991 and went into operation in mid-1995, Thac Mo Hydroelectricity has a capacity of 150 MW with 2 units.

The reservoir for the plant to operate has a normal rising water level of 218 m, wide 109 km2, a capacity of 1.36 billion m3. The main dam of the hydroelectric is 50 m high and 7 m wide (dam crest). In addition, Thac Mo hydropower supplies water to the surrounding land and controls floods downstream.

12. Thac Ba Hydro Power Plant

Thac Ba Hydroelectric Power Plant was the first hydroelectric power plant built in the North in the context of the US imperialism expanding the scale of raiding the North by air force, sabotaging the construction of socialism. Thac Ba Hydro Power Plant was officially started construction on August 19, 1964. Thousands of workers, workers and soldiers shifted their branches enthusiastically, volunteering here to devote their youth to the construction of key projects of the country.

It is a key work in our country's first 5-year socio-economic development plan (1960 - 1965). As a foundation of material and technical foundations for the construction of socialism of the country.

With 9 Labor Medals, First, Second and Third; 2 Resistance Medal, Victory Medal; 1 Independence Medal, the title of Hero of the Armed Forces and many certificates of merit and emulation flags of the Government, ministries, branches and localities, along with the practical assistance and assistance of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and Vietnam Electricity, Thac Ba Hydropower Joint Stock Company will continue to rise up to fulfill the tasks, worthy of being the 'first child' of our country's hydroelectricity industry, contributing effectively to the development of socio-economic development in the period of national industrialization and modernization.