China's Yunnan sends 2 bln kwh of
electricity to Vietnam
By June 30, Yunnan Power Grid had sent
a total of 2.133 billion kilowatt-hours (kwh) of electricity
to Vietnam, sources from Yunnan Power Grid Company
disclosed.
Yunnan earned over US$40 million from
its sales of electricity to Vietnam in the first half
of this year, overfulfiling the target of "import
and export growing 12 per cent year on year to reach
US$34.32 million" set by the company for 2007. From
September 25, 2004 to June 30, 2007, Yunnan Power
Grid has sent a total of 2.133 billion kwh of electricity
to Vietnam.
China began to send electricity to Vietnam
as of September 2004, and has constructed three 110
kilovolt (kv) transmission lines between the two countries.
On September 26, 2006, the first Sino-Vietnamese
220-kv power grid link project went into operation,
which adopts 220-kv transmission lines for Yunnan
to supply electricity to the six provinces in North
Vietnam.
At the end of April 2007 the second
220-kv power grid link project went into operation
to facilitate power transmission from Yunnan Power
Grid to Vietnam.
