A ground breaking ceremony was held on Oct. 26 in Ha Noi city to ignaugurate the Mong Duong 2 BOT Coal Fired Power Plant after 4 years of construction.
AES-VCM Mong Duong Power Company, a joint venture between AES Corporation (51%), Posco Energy (30%) and China Investment Corporation (19%), developed the 1,240MW Mong Duong-2 (MD2) coal-fired thermal power plant in the Quang Ninh Province .
The Mong Duong-2 power plant was constructed on a 297ha site in the Mong Duong Power Centre, approximately 200km east of Hanoi, and is located alongside the Mong Duong 1 project.The project is expected to generate up to 7.6 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually, which will be used to power more than two million Vietnamese households. It also created approximately 6,000 construction and 200 operational jobs.
Article by Hoang Nga
