Attending the ceremony were comrade Phan Viet Cuong – Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; comrade Ho Quang Buu - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Mr. Tran Dinh Nhan - General Director of EVN, and leaders of consulting, supervision and construction contractors participating in the project.
This project is responsible for transmitting capacity from the Monsoon wind power plant and hydropower sources from Laos to the Thanh My 500kV substation (Quang Nam province). The Monsoon wind power project with a total capacity of 600MW is built in the Southeast of Laos, located about 22km from the Laos - Vietnam border, with commercial operation date (COD) in the second quarter of 2025. The project was assigned by the Prime Minister to EVN as the investor with a total project investment of more than 1,100 billion VND.
Construction layout of the 500kV Monsoon - Thanh My transmission line
Accordingly, the Monsoon wind power project is connected into the Vietnamese power system with a total length of 65km. To serve the connection of this project, the scope of work in Vietnamese territory includes 2 projects: the 500kV Monsoon - Thanh My T/line in Vietnamese territory (with a length of 44.71 km (double- circuit) including 91 tower locations) and the project to expand and renovate the existing 500kV Thanh My substation. When the project is completed and put into operation, it will be able to transmit a maximum capacity of about 2,500 MW, contributing to improving the operation capacity of the national power system through importing electricity from Laos. However, according to the power purchase contract, when put into operation in the immediate future, the T/line will receive imported electricity from wind power sources in Laos with a capacity of 600 MW and the expected average annual electricity output is about 1.7 billion kWh.
The construction of the 500kV Monsoon – Thanh My T/line project (section in Vietnamese territory) has realized the bilateral commitment on cooperation between the governments of the two countries: the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and Lao People's Democractic Republic in the field of energy system development.
Mr. Nguyen Tai Anh - Chairman of the Board of Directors of PECC1 (second from the left side) and Mr. Nguyen Kim Cuong - Deputy General Director of PECC1 (4th from the left side) and Company officials took photos with leaders of EVN
Being the leading consulting company y of the electricity industry in Vietnam, PECC1 is continuously entrusted by investors as well as by EVN for designing modern power transmission lines and substations to ensure safe power supply with flexible operation schemes to bring electricity from the power plants, once put into operation, from Laos to Vietnam, such as: Xekaman 3 hydropower, Xekaman 1 hydropower, Xekaman 4 hydropower, Nam Emoun hydropower etc.
In this project, PECC1 is responsible for carrying out the package with following tasks:
- Consulting, investigating for preparation of Feasibility Study Reports;
- Environmental impact assessment and specialized reports.
- Geological, topographical and hydro-meteorological investigations for preparation of Technical Design-Construction Drawing Design;
- Elaboration of Technical Design - Construction Drawing Design and Project Construction Cost Estimate;
- Cost estimating for project construction bidding packages;
- Preparing bidding documents, evaluating bidding documents for the packages of materials supply, construction and installation of the T/line;
- Supervision consulting of package number 16 (XL-03): Construction and erection of works (18 tower positions, from VT54-VT71, length of about 9.99km) and package number 17 (XL-04): Construction and erection of works ( 20 tower positions, from VT72-VT91, length of about 10.75km).