Its planned capacity is 2.400 megawatts
French company Alstom Hydro will build the largest hydroelectric power plant in Southeast Asia in Vietnam, according to a €190 million contract signed today during the visit of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to France.
Alstom Hydro, formed by the French groups Alstom and Bouygues, will supply the public entity Electricité du Vietnam (EVN) with the electromechanical equipment destined for the Son La power plant, with a planned capacity of 2.400 megawatts, Alstom said in a statement.
The contract was signed today in Paris by the respective presidents of ENV, Pham Le Thanh, and Alstom Hydro, Philippe Cochet, in the presence of the Prime Minister of France, François Fillon, and his Vietnamese counterpart, and the top executives of Alstom and Bouygues.
For the Son La power plant, located on the Da River about 340 kilometers from Hanoi, Alstom Hydro will be responsible for the design, engineering, manufacturing and delivery of six 400-megawatt turbines and their alternators, as well as the control and command equipment and other components.
It will also be responsible for training and supervising the installation, testing and commissioning operations, which should take place between 2010 and 2012, the note specifies.
The plant is expected to produce around 10.000 billion kilowatt-hours, or a "very significant" part of Vietnam's energy needs, according to Alstom Hydro, which supplied the equipment for five hydroelectric plants already installed in various parts of the country.
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