Cambodia to Build Power Link with VietnamConstruction on the first national power transmission line between Phnom Penh and the Vietnamese border will begin later this month, according to the Cambodia Daily Tuesday.Creating the 46 million U. S. dollar power link with Vietnam is the beginning of a 10-year electricity and power project in Cambodia. The country planned to spend another 82 million dollars to build a national power grid. The Cambodian-Vietnamese power link will include two connections, said Ith Praing, secretary of state of the Ministry of Energy. The first link is a medium voltage 15- or 22-kilowatt line that will benefit villages on both sides of the order. The second larger union is a 220-kilowatt high-voltage transmission line that will run from the Vietnamese border to Takeo town, southern Cambodia and then to Phnom Penh, he added. The projects will bring cheaper, more reliable power supplies to Cambodia, as Cambodian officials said. Currently, only 7 percent of Cambodians have access to reliable electricity. Both the link from Vietnam and the power grid project will be financed with loans from the World Bank. |
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