Cốc San Hydropower Plant (Bát Xát District, Lào Cai Province) is a diversion-type plant with a very high generating head, for which VCE provided construction supervision. The project was completed and began generating electricity in 2016.
This was the first foreign direct investment hydropower project in the Northwest region. Its foreign investment came from InfraCo Asia, a member of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), based in Singapore. Nexif Energy subsequently acquired a majority shareholding in the company to continue managing and operating the project.
The plant has 03 Pelton turbine units with a total capacity of 30 MW and average annual generation of 127 million kWh. The pressure tunnel has a diameter of D=2.5 m and a length of approximately 5.7 km, including 3 inclined shaft sections. The plant's maximum generating head is approximately Hmax=545.5 m.
Contracting entity: Công ty Cổ phần Năng lượng Colben
Contract numbers: 02-1/2011/HĐ-VCE and 13/2013/HĐ-LCRE
Scope of work:
– Construction supervision.
– Review of the design and shop drawings.
