Electrification of rural areas makes stride over past decade
The implementation of synchronous measures to improve the power supply system has brought a facelift to Vietnamese rural areas, with 99.98 percent of communes nationwide and 98.83 percent of households accessing electricity as of 2017.
Electrification of rural areas has made great strides over the past decade. Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi, (VNA) - The implementation of synchronous measures to improvethe power supply system has brought a facelift to Vietnamese rural areas, with 99.98percent of communes nationwide and 98.83 percent of households accessing electricityas of 2017.
One decade ago, the rates were 97 percent and 93.4 percent, respectively.
The result was attributable to projects carried out by the Electricityof Vietnam (EVN) in the past decade with financing from official developmentassistance (ODA) loans worth about 2 billion USD from the World Bank, the AsianDevelopment Bank, the French Development Agency, the German Development Bank,and the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
Besides, the group has spent over 5.5 trillion VND (240.9 million USD) implementingprojects to connect 369 communes with nearly 400,000 families in far-flungrural and border areas of Son La, Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Bac Kan, Nghe An, LangSon, Khanh Hoa, Tra Vinh, Soc Trang, Hau Giang, Ca Mau, and Kien Giang to thenational grid.
EVN has invested in buildingpower supply systems for island districts and communes to develop sea-basedeconomy, protect the marine environment, and contribute to safeguarding thenational sovereignty over seas and islands.
It has built overhead electricitylines and cross-sea submarine cable lines at total cost of over 6.1 trillionVND (267.1 million USD) to island districts such as Co To (Quang Ninh), PhuQuoc, Kien Hai (Kien Giang), and Ly Son (Quang Ngai) as well as many islandcommunes across the country, supplying electricity for over 140,000 households.
Besides building the transmissionnetworks, EVN also gradually took over the management of the low-voltagenetworks operated by local organisations. As of the end of 2017, the group tookover the management of networks in nearly 6,000 communes in rural areas withover 6.2 million households and spent nearly 8 trillion VND on upgrading thetransmission grids.
The Northern Electricity Corporation has set the goal of connecting 100percent of households in rural areas to the national grid by 2020.-VNA
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Electrification of rural areas has made great strides over the past decade. Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) 
