Illustrative photo (Source: VNA)Hanoi(VNA) – The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN)’s Northern Power Corporation (EVNNPC)has reported that total commercial power it produced in October reached morethan 5 billion kWh, up 11.45 percent over the same period last year.
In the first 10 monthsof 2017, the firm’s total production hit 47.56 billion kWh, up 12.36 percentyear on year and equivalent to 82.44 percent of the yearly plan. Of which,63.43 percent was supplied to construction and industry, a rise of 15.54percent, while 30.23 percent was for daily use.
In October, thecorporation put into operation 14 new power supply works and transmissionlines, raising the capacity and reliability of the power grid.
Alongside, EVNNPC alsocompleted all 14 customer service criteria, with service request responsetaking only 5.15 days, down 1.85 days compared to the regulation. It informedpower charges through SMS to 14.74 million customers in October and 157.13million in the January-October period, an increase of nearly 34 millioncompared to the same period last year.
The firm also tookprompt measures to resume power supply to northern mountainous and centrallocalities affected by abnormal floods in October.
In November, theEVNNPC aims to continue solutions to ensure safe and stable power supply tocustomers, while reducing power loss and speeding up underway works.-VNA
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