Resources For

Trung Son Hydropower Project

Available in: Tiếng việt

www.worldbank.org/vn/trungson

Overview

Vietnam’s growth rate of 7-8% for the past 10 years has led to an increasing demand for power. Chronic shortages are affecting the agricultural, industrial and services sector, while many houses still have no electricity. To meet this demand—estimated at an installed capacity of 39GW by 2020, compared to 15.8 GW end 2008—the Government is developing a range of power sources, including hydropower.

The country’s main electricity generator, Vietnam Electricity (EVN), will build the US$380 million Trung Son Hydropower Project (TSHPP) with financial and technical support from the World Bank. It is the Bank’s first hydropower project in Vietnam and was the country’s first planned investment loan from the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).

As climate change impacts create increasing national concern, a series of hydropower plants that provide clean, renewable and low-cost energy have been planned. Vietnam is keen to improve the social and environmental performance of these projects, and TSHPP is an opportunity to show the progress Vietnam has made in developing a legal and policy framework which complies with the Bank’s safeguards policies.

The World Bank has a history of involvement in Vietnam’s power sector dating to the early 1990s. The US$330 million IBRD loan includes support for equipment, civil works and technical assistance for the dam, reservoir and hydropower plant. A sum of US$ 26 million has been reserved for improved resettlement, livelihood development, support for ethnic minorities and environment protection.

The project is currently scheduled for presentation to the World Bank's Board of Executive Directors on April 26, 2011.

For more information please visit the project description, reports and documents and fast facts pages.

		Check out documents and reports at various stages of the project

		Questions and Answers (April 26, 2011)
		Fast Facts
		Hydro FAQs
		Project Description

		Consultations
		For Ethnic Minorities, "New Businesses and a Road to Hanoi"

		Electricity of Vietnam
		World Bank: Directions for Hydropower
		WB Energy Strategy: Upcoming Consultations

For inquiries related to this project, please e-mail:
trungsoninquiries@ worldbank.org

Consultation Process

Consultations on the environmental and resettlement plans were held with affected communes beginning January 19, 2010. Inputs from local stakeholders, representatives of People’s Committees and feedback from others including independent observers have been received. The draft EAI/EMP/RLDP are available at our information centers in Vietnam and Washington as well as on this website and that of EVN.

To promote positive NGO involvement in the project, the World Bank has participated in a workshop at the request of Vietnam River’s Network in September and invited NGOs to a project update discussion in late October. A meeting between the TSHMPB and NGO representatives was held in December following which NGO representatives attended the village consultations as observers.

Hanoi Consultation:

The Trung Son Hydropower Management Board and The World Bank met on March 3, 2010, with over a hundred members of civil society organizations, think tanks and academic institutes at La Thanh Hotel, Hanoi , for a public consultation on the Trung Son Hydropower Project in Thanh Hoa. The meeting was also attended by district and village representatives, including a group of minority women from project affected areas who took active part in the discussions.

The Chairman, Mr Nguyen Hong Toan, Director for the Centre for River Basin Water Resources and Environmental Management, conducted the nearly three hour panel discussion which followed presentations on the Resettlement and Livelihood Development Plan, the Environment Impact and Management Plans.

The audience received a report on consultations carried out by PMB in 53 villages in January-February 2010. This was followed by a presentation from a Vietnamese NGO group led by Ms Nguy Thi Khanh representing the Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development (Warecod) and Vietnam Rivers Network (VRN). The group had earlier attended the village consultations as independent observers.

As per our announcement, a listing of the questions/comments raised at the meeting and received in writing, and the initial responses provided by Trung Son Hydropower Project Management Board are available here in Vietnamese (476kb pdf) and in English (395kb pdf)

General reports of the Consultation are also available in both English (695kb pdf) and in Vietnamese (865kb pdf)

Last updated: 2011-04-26

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