Vietnamese construction company Trungnam Group has announced the inauguration of what is thought to be the nation’s biggest solar project – the 450 MW Trung Nam Thuan Nam Solar Plant, in the southeastern province of Ninh Thuan.
The company on Monday announced completion of the project, including associated electricity grid improvements, and said the solar plant had been completed within 102 days of finance being agreed in April.
Trungnam stated the solar project, in the Phuoc Minh commune of Ninh Thuan’s Thuan Nam district, would generate 1.2 GWh of solar electricity in its first year of operation and “more than” 1 GWh annually thereafter.
The company said some 8,000 laborers and engineers carried out land clearance of the site in just 45 days and said it had joined with public bodies the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, the Thuan Nam communal people’s committee, and the provincial association of poor patients to donate 102 houses worth a total $220,000 to poor households during the build phase.
Noting that the government wanted Ninh Thuan province to become a “national renewable energy center,” Trungnam said the 500 kV transformer station and 220/500 kV power line installed as part of the project would enhance the grid in the province and the wider south central coast region.
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To put this in perspective Vietnam’s goal was 1GW of solar capacity installed by 2020 so this one project would have been nearly half of that. In reality Vietnam actually had 5GW of installed solar capacity at the end of 2019 from practically none in 2017. Big growth rate that hopefully will keep them from building more coal.
Odd. 1 GWh in a year while 450 MW should take a bit over 2 hr.
1 GWh must be a typo. 1 TWh of generation from 450 MW facility seems more realistic in Vietnam.