Vung Ang power station

Vũng Áng power station is a 2,400-megawatt (MW) coal plant in Hà Tĩnh province, Vietnam.

Location
The map below shows the location where the plant is being built in Kỳ Lợi commune, Kỳ Anh district, Hà Tĩnh province.

Background
In December 2006, PetroVietnam started initial work on the two-unit, 1,200-MW Vũng Áng-1, with the Vietnamese Lilama Corporation being contracted to build the plant. Construction began in August 2009. The first unit is scheduled to go online in June 2014, and the second in December.

In August 2007, OneEnergy, a partnership of China's CLP Group and Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation, announced that it had signed a construction contract with Lilama to build the two-unit, 1,200-MW, $1.2 billion Vũng Áng-2. The Vietnamese government approved the plant in March 2009. Construction is slated to begin in 2014.

Project Details

 * Sponsor: PetroVietnam (Vũng Áng-1); OneEnergy (Vũng Áng-2)
 * Parent company: CLP Group, Mitsubishi Corporation (Vũng Áng-2)
 * Location: Kỳ Lợi commune, Kỳ Anh district, Hà Tĩnh province, Vietnam
 * Coordinates: 18.09792, 106.38123 (exact)
 * Status: Under construction (Vũng Áng-1); development (Vũng Áng-2)
 * Gross Capacity: 2,400 MW (1,200 MW Vũng Áng-1, 1,200 MW Vũng Áng-2)
 * Type: Subcritical
 * Projected in service: 2014 (Vũng Áng-1); TBD (Vũng Áng-2)
 * Coal Type: Anthracite
 * Coal Source:
 * Source of financing: Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Sumitomo Mitsui, China Development Bank, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ]], Credit Suisse, Intesa Sanpaolo, HSBC (Vũng Áng-1)

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