Dak Lak: 97% of rural households connected to national grid

All communes, wards and towns and over 97% of the total households in rural areas in the Central Highland province of Dak Lak have been connected to the national grid.

Dak Lak: 97% of rural households connected to national grid

According to the Director of the Dak Lak provincial Electricity Company, Nguyen Van Than, in recent years the company has invested in building and upgrading 360 km of 35kV transmission lines, nearly 3,700 km of 22kV transmission lines and over 4,600 km of low-voltage transmission lines.

The company also spent money on building 4,000 additional charge transformer stations with commercial power production reaching 1.3 billion kWh per year, serving over 481,000 customers.

It also constructed 497 km of medium-voltage transmission lines, 545 km of low-voltage transmission lines and 279 transformer stations, benefiting 23,000 households in 378 hamlets in ethnic minority areas, contributing to promoting the locality’s socio-economic development.

Households and enterprises located in key coffee and pepper cultivation areas have also gained access to the national grid, which facilitates their irrigation work in the dry season.

The company has paid heed to instructing locals to economically use electricity, and enhancing the management, inspection and upgrade of the transmission system, thus reducing power loss from 8.9% in 2014 to below 6.4% this year.

The director added that his company will continue investing to upgrade its transmission system and promote the application of information technology in order to ensure the quality of electricity for production and daily life of local residents.