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30 April 2007 - China will export 2.5bn kWh of power to Vietnam in 2007 through a network of five power transmission lines, the China Southern Power Grid Company has said.
The company has enhanced the power transmission capacity to Vietnam by inaugurating a second 220-kV line linking Wenshan in southwest China's Yunnan Province with Ha Giang in Vietnam, said Yuan Maozhen, president of the China Southern Power Grid Company. "It will supply power to Vietnam for ten years and will transmit an average 1bn kWh of electricity a year," he said.
The Wenshan-Ha Giang power transmission line is 300 km long, including 170 kilometres in China, and was built at a cost of 413m yuan ($53m).
The first 220 kV power transmission line between China and Vietnam was inaugurated last September in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province. In addition, three 110 kV lines have been in operation since September 2004 to supply electricity to Vietnam by way of Yunnan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
By the end of March, the four existing lines had transmitted 1.84bn kWh, worth $80.76m to Vietnam, said Yuan.
Construction of the power transmission network is part of a $500m power supply contract signed in October 2005 between the China Southern Power Grid Company and the state-owned Electricity of Vietnam (EVN). Under the contract, the Chinese company will supply electricity to six provinces in northern Vietnam for at least 10 years.
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