Dung Quat power station

Dung Quat Power Station is a proposed 1,200-megawatt (MW) coal plant in Quảng Ngãi province, Vietnam.

Location
The map below shows the location of the Dung Quat Economic Zone, the approximate location where the plant will be built in Bình Sơn district, Quảng Ngãi province.

Background
In Jan. 2012, Sembcorp announced an initial agreement with the Quảng Ngãi provincial government for its plans to build a 1,200-MW coal power plant in the Dung Quat Economic Zone. In May 2013, Sembcorp announced that the proposed plant had been incorporated by the Vietnamese government into its ten-year national power development plan, signaling government approval of the project; Sembcorp signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Vietnam's Ministry of Industry & Trade in Sept. 2013. The plant is expected to come online in 2020-21, and would cost nearly $2 billion.

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 * Sponsor: Sembcorp Utilities Vietnam
 * Parent company: Sembcorp Industries
 * Location: Bình Sơn district, Quảng Ngãi province, Vietnam
 * Coordinates: 15.35790, 108.80911 (approximate)
 * Status: Development
 * Gross Capacity: 1,200 MW
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 * Projected in service: 2020 (Unit 1), 2021 (Unit 2)
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