Electricity workers operate power facilities (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Power Generation Corporation 1(GENCO 1) under the State-owned Vietnam Electricity produced over 26.65 billionkWh over the last 10 months, representing 77.5 percent of this year’s targetand a year-on-year rise of 12.3 percent.
The firm said that in October, the water flowinto hydropower reservoirs and mobilized capacity of thermal power plants’turbines was low.
However, its total electricity output increased8 percent from the month’s planned production and 46 percent from a yearearlier to 2.82 billion kWh last month. That included 692 million kWh generatedby hydropower plants and over 2 billion kWh by thermal power ones.
GENCO 1 plans to generate more than 2.6 billionkWh of electricity in November, including 352 million kWh of hydropower andnearly 2.26 billion kWh thermal power.
The company also assigned its hydropower plantsto optimise water resources and thermal power facilities to maximise productioncapacity as requested by the National Load Dispatch Centre.
GENCO 1 is one of the three power generation corporations ofthe Vietnam Electricity group.
It currently owns the hydropower plants of SongTranh (Quang Nam province), Ban Ve (central Nghe An province), Dong Nai, DaiNinh and Da Nhim-Ham Thuan-Da Mi (Central Highlands province of Lam Dong). Thethermal power companies of Uong Bi (northern Quang Ninh province), Duyen Hai(southern Tra Vinh province), and Nghi Son (central Thanh Hoa province) arealso members of GENCO 1.-VNA
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