Workers of Kon Tum Power Company upgrade and rehabilitate distribution grids in Sa Thay district
Tay Nguyen is a large area with complicated terrains and dispersed population, especially new and unexpected requests for electricity delivery are often made due to unforeseeable number of immigrant or migrant ethnic minority households.
Over the past few years, the Government has invested tens of thousands of billions of VND to establish medium and low voltage power lines and substations to deliver electricity to communes, villages in order to satisfy production and living requirements of ethnic minority people as well as the regional security and defense.
In particular, the Government has many programs and projects to supply electricity to unelectrified villages of the Central Highlands, to assist 100% of investment costs for power grid development, including branches, electricity meters, electrical systems in homes for families under preferential treatment policy, poor ethnic minority households, households in remote and border areas, etc.
For example, Dak Lak Power Company has raised many resources to invest in upgrading, rehabilitating and building new grid systems; particularly focused on expanding the power network in rural, remote and ethnic minority areas.
Only from 2011 to August 2017, the Company has invested over VND 800 billion to build, rehabilitate and upgrade power grids to meet production and residential requirements, contributing to poverty reduction, improving the living standards for the people in the region.
Currently, Dak Lak Power Company manages and operates the power grid composing of more than 4,000 km of medium voltage power lines, 4,624 km of low voltage lines and 4,435 distribution substations with the total capacity of 849,000 kVA.
In the remote commune Ea Kiet, Cu M'gar district (Dak Lak province), since the national electricity grid was accessible, ethnic minority people have vigorously invested in developing handicraft industry, installing coffee processing machines, installing sprinkler irrigation systems for coffee, pepper plantation, etc., helping better the material and spiritual life of people in the area.
In Dak Nong province, from August 2017 until the year 2025, the province plans to invest VND 2,236 billion to build 650 km of new medium voltage power lines, 1,400 km of low voltage lines, 1,000 substations with the total capacity of 130,000 kVA and install nearly 55,000 electricity meters for ethnic minority households in the province.