O Mon IV Thermal Power Plant is expected to generate commercial electricity in December 2028.

EPC contract signing ceremony for O Mon IV Thermal Power Plant project. Photo: PTV

The event marks an important milestone in the roadmap to realize the Block B - O Mon gas - power project chain, one of the national key energy projects, aiming at the goal of developing clean, modern and sustainable energy in Vietnam in the coming period.

The O Mon IV Thermal Power Plant project includes component projects: Offshore gas exploitation at Block B, Block B - O Mon gas pipeline and the thermal power plant cluster in Can Tho .

The project chain plays a strategic role in exploiting, transporting and effectively using gas resources in the Southwest region, contributing to ensuring national energy security, sea and island security and providing stable electricity for the Southern region.

The implementation of the project chain has encountered many difficulties and challenges, leading to the overall progress being prolonged by nearly 20 years. In particular, the investment phase in the construction of gas-fired power plants - especially the O Mon IV Thermal Power Plant - is identified as a component project on the "critical path" in terms of progress and is decisive to the feasibility and economic efficiency of the entire project chain, especially in the context that the projects in the first phase have implemented EPC 2 years earlier than the thermal power plant project.

Faced with that urgent requirement, the Prime Minister assigned Petrovietnam to be the investor of the O Mon IV Thermal Power Plant project to promote downstream progress and ensure synchronization throughout the chain.

The joint venture Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd. (Korea) - Power Construction Consulting Joint Stock Company 2 (PECC2) has been selected as the EPC General Contractor of the project.

The plant uses the latest generation of combined cycle gas turbine technology, high efficiency, fuel economy, and environmental friendliness. The designed capacity is about 1,155 MW, higher than the planned scale, and is expected to generate commercial electricity in December 2028.

With the completion of the O Mon IV Thermal Power Plant project, the total power capacity that Petrovietnam is managing and operating will increase to more than 9,300 MW, accounting for about 10% of the total capacity of the national power system.

Source: https://hanoimoi.vn/nha-may-nhiet-dien-o-mon-iv-du-kien-phat-dien-thuong-mai-vao-thang-12-2028-704824.html