The World Bank approved Thursday a loan of US$500 million to the Vietnamese government to improve the capacity, efficiency and reliability of the country’s electricity transmission in several key areas.
The areas that benefit from the credit package are those that are key to the country’s economic development, including the Greater Hanoi Area, the Greater Ho Chi Minh City Area, the Mekong Delta, and the Central Region, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors said in a statement.
The project will finance transmission lines and substations at voltage levels of 220 and 500 kilovolts to increase the transport capacity and reliability of the electric grid.
“It will finance about 15 percent of Vietnam’s transmission network growth from 2015 to 2020, targeting key investment needs in major economic development areas where transmission overloads are already present or will happen in the very short term,” the statement reads.
The project will support Smart Grid technologies for monitoring, control, and protection equipment to improve reliability and reduce electricity outages.
It will also help build the capacity of the National Power Transmission Company by supporting its operational and financial independence, in line with the power sector reforms program, which foresees a wholesale competitive market to be piloted by 2015.
The total financing requirement of the project is estimated at $731.25 million, of which $500 million will be funded by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank Group’s lending arm for middle-income countries.
The remaining $231.25 million will be financed by the Southeast Asian country, according to the World Bank.
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