Vinh Tan 4 Thermal Power Plant: Proactive fuel supply to meet high electricity demand

In the first months of this year, the economy continued to grow, along with the widespread severe heat occurring in all three regions, the demand for electricity for production and daily life was very high. The maximum capacity and daily electricity consumption nationwide increased compared to before. Along with thermal power plants nationwide, Vinh Tan 4 thermal power plant has mobilized all production resources, contributing to meeting the high demand for electricity nationwide.

Meet production materials

According to information from Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN), in the first 5 months of this year, the total electricity output of the entire system reached 127.6 billion kWh, an increase over the same period last year. The output and proportion of mobilized power sources of the entire system in the first 5 months of the year with coal-fired thermal power having the highest rate of nearly 72.4 billion kWh, accounting for 56.8%; hydropower 25.7 billion kWh, accounting for 20.1%; gas turbine 8.7 billion kWh, accounting for 6.8%; renewable energy 18.2 billion kWh, accounting for 14.3%.

Director of Vinh Tan 4 Thermal Power Plant Vu Thanh Hai: Proactively providing raw materials for production, while protecting the environment.

At Vinh Tan Power Center, which is considered the main source of electricity for the national grid in all weather conditions, thermal power plants (TPs) proactively provide fuel to meet the high demand for electricity during this year's long dry season. According to Vinh Tan 4 TP, since the end of April last year, Vinh Tan 4 TP proactively joined with VDKGS Joint Venture to sign a contract to purchase imported coal to serve the commercial operation of the plant from June last year to the end of this year, with the contracted coal volume of 3,200,000 tons. This contract is an important milestone for the plant to ensure sufficient fuel (imported coal), meeting the operation requirements of the National Electricity System and Market Operation Company Limited (NSMO). The amount of coal helps the plant maintain fuel inventory levels according to EVN's direction, not to lack coal under any circumstances. Imported coal has low ash and slag content. The amount of ash and slag after being collected and stored in silos is transported by specialized vehicles to the landfill for burial and consumption, ensuring environmental regulations. As of the end of May, Vinh Tan 4 imported 1.88 million tons of coal, ensuring production in the first months of this year; the amount of coal in stock is nearly 500,000 tons to meet the operation in the coming time. A leader of the Factory Operation Workshop said: "The factory's imported coal ensures continuous supply for production during the long hot season. During the process of unloading coal from internal port cargo ships, the system operates in automatic mode, combined with support measures, ensuring the operating, storage, and production environment".

Modern coal import port of Vinh Tan 4 Thermal Power Plant.

Directly operating electricity production at Vinh Tan 4 Thermal Power Plant.

The plant's Board of Directors acknowledged that although there are still many difficulties and challenges, with input costs for electricity production such as coal, oil, etc. at high prices, the plant's employees are determined to overcome all difficulties and unfavorable developments, focusing on implementing the highest economic and technical targets assigned by the Vietnam Electricity Group. Specifically, the plant is promoting the completion of the overhaul of Unit 2, the construction items in the plan to overhaul Unit 1 to ensure quality and progress; optimizing costs in bidding, purchasing materials and equipment, and managing the use of materials; the heat loss rate for the whole year is approaching the target assigned by EVN at 9,604.17 kJ/kWh. The incident rate is less than 1; the response factor is nearly 96%, ready to respond according to the mobilization method of the National Electricity System and Market Operation Company Limited (NSMO); Ensure that the factory's self-consumption rate is less than 6.64%.

Complete the renovation of the generator set and put it into electricity production.

Strive to achieve EVN's assigned output

It is known that the electricity output in May 2025 of Vinh Tan 4 + Vinh Tan 4 expansion is 1,028.4 million kWh. The accumulated electricity output up to May 31, 2025 of Vinh Tan 4 + Vinh Tan 4 expansion is 3,804 million kWh. Previously, in the first 2 months of the year, the plant was only mobilized at low load level, reducing the load to 240 - 300 MW capacity to prioritize the mobilization of renewable energy sources during noon hours. In the coming time, Vinh Tan 4 Thermal Power Plant is focusing on striving to produce electricity in the last months of the year according to the mobilization of NSMO, meeting the total electricity output of the plant assigned by Vietnam Electricity Group of 11.432 billion kWh for the whole year of 2025; contributing to providing the increased electricity demand for production in industrial parks and daily life of people nationwide.

Previously, at the 2nd Party Congress of Vinh Tan 4 Thermal Power Plant, term 2025 - 2030, Mr. Nguyen Huu Tuan, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Vietnam Electricity Group acknowledged: "Vinh Tan 4 Thermal Power Plant has successfully completed its political tasks; safely producing electricity to meet the electricity demand of the system, especially during the peak months of the dry season, contributing to ensuring national energy security, focusing on environmental protection. The unit continues to proactively source fuel, meet the operation of generators, stabilize production, protect the environment, and ensure high electricity demand during the long dry season".

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