Hanoi, October 15 (Engineering Daily) --On October 5th, Vietnamese TTC Corporation and its subsidiary Gia Lai Electricity JSC (GEC) held an inauguration ceremony of TTC Phong Dien Solar Power Plant in Phong Dien District, Thua Thien Hue province.
The chief associates of the TTC Phong Dien Solar Power Plant IFC country manager for Vietnam, Cambodia, and Lao PDR Kyle Kelhofer, TTC Group chairwoman Huynh Bich Ngoc, and board director of GEC Deepak Khanna at the inauguration attended the inauguration.
The project began its construction in January 2018 with 300 domestic and foreign workers and engineers. 145,560 solar panels have been installed with advanced technology and equipment.
TTC Phong Dien Solar Power Plant has a capacity of 35MW and total investment capital is $42.9 million. It generates electricity 60 million kWh per year and this is equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of 32,628 households in Vietnam. Furthermore, the plant is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by 20,503 tonnes per year.
The plant size is 45-hectare and it ranges from 50 km to the northern Hue City and 16 km to the eastern Phong Dien Town center.
In 2019, the capacity of the plant is expected to expand by 29.5MW on a 38.5-hectare plant of solar panels. Furthermore, it is planned that within the fourth quarter of this year GEC will officially put into operation TTC Krong Pa Solar Power Plant in Gia Lai province. The $60.3 million solar energy project has a capacity of 49MW.
GEC is one of the largest private sector hydropower players in Vietnam with 84.4MW of installed capacity across 15 run-of-the-river small-scale hydropower plants.
