Nhon Trach Formosa power station

Nhơn Trạch Formosa power station is a 150-megawatt (MW) coal plant in Đồng Nai province, Vietnam.

Location
The undated satellite photo below shows the plant, which is in Nhơn Trạch 3 Industrial Park, Nhơn Trạch district, Đồng Nai province.

Background
In 2001, Hung Nghiep Formosa, a subsidiary of Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics Group, agreed with Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) to build a 150-MW coal-fired power plant in the Nhơn Trạch district of Đồng Nai province, near Ho Chi Minh City, as part of a much larger project that would also include a textile plant, artificial thread plants, and a plastic plant. The complex was completed in 2004, at a cost of $956 million.

Project Details

 * Owner: Hung Nghiep Formosa Hà Tĩnh Steel Corporation
 * Parent company: Formosa Plastics Group
 * Location: Nhơn Trạch district, Đồng Nai province, Vietnam
 * Coordinates: 10.71513, 106.92495 (approximate)
 * Status: Operating
 * Gross Capacity: 150 MW
 * Type: Subcritical
 * In service: 2004
 * Coal Type:
 * Coal Source: 100% foreign
 * Source of financing:

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Vietnam and coal

External resources
[