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ADB-funded project brings power to Lai Chau province
VGP - Households in 31 mountainous communes of northern Lai Chau province will soon gain access to electricity under a project to improve the province’s rural power grid.
The project is part of an Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded program to develop renewable energy, expand the power grids to remote rural areas.
The two-phase program has a total capitalization of over VND948 billion (US$45 million), including US$30 million sourced from ADB.
The first phase is expected to complete later this month, with 5,758 households in Lai Chau province and 7,944 others in Dien Bien province gaining access to electricity.
By the end of 2014, the project will provide electricity to 14,487 households in 48 communes in eight districts of Dien Bien province and 16,207 households in 53 communes in six districts of Lai Chau province including Than Uyen, Tan Uyen, Phong Tho, Tam Duong, Sin Ho and Muong Te.
It will help raise the number of families using electricity in Lai Chau province from 61 percent to 79 percent and in Dien Bien from 67.9 percent to 81 percent. - VOV