Duyen Hai Thermal Power Plant actively adapts for sustainable development

Effectively implementing the 2022 theme of Vietnam Electricity Group "Safe, flexible and effective adaptation", Duyen Hai Thermal Power Company has overcome many difficulties, implemented solutions of economic, technical targets combined with effective epidemic prevention and control synchronously and effectively, contributing to EVN/EVNGENCO1's well implementation of political tasks to ensure safe and stable electricity supply for socio-economic development and ready to "conquer" new goals for 2023.

Effectively implementing the 2022 theme of Vietnam Electricity Group "Safe, flexible and effective adaptation", Duyen Hai Thermal Power Company has overcome many difficulties, implemented solutions of economic, technical targets combined with effective epidemic prevention and control synchronously and effectively, contributing to EVN/EVNGENCO1's well implementation of political tasks to ensure safe and stable electricity supply for socio-economic development and ready to "conquer" new goals for 2023.
 


Overview of Duyen Hai Power Electricity Center

Duyen Hai Thermal Power Company is a unit of Power Generation Corporation 1 (EVNGENCO1), assigned the task of managing and operating 3 plants invested by EVN and EVNGENCO1 with a total designed capacity 3,178 MW and managing the seaport at the Duyen Hai Power Electricity Center. After more than 7 years of establishment and development, the company has produced more than 86 billion kWh of electricity, contributing to ensuring national energy security.

Safe, flexible and effective adaptation

The year 2022 faced the context of many difficulties and challenges when the Covid-19 epidemic still has many potential risks, the world situation is volatile, the prices of input fuels such as coal and gas increase, the power market has many variations. The company has actively developed plans and implemented synchronous solutions, minimized the impact of the epidemic, adapted flexibly, continued to maintain stable production and business activities, stable and safe electrical system; improved the reliability of power supply; promoted digital transformation and application of science and technology in the new normal condition.


Annual health check for employees

Accordingly, the Company had coordinated with the local health sector to ensure that 100% of the company's employees received 4 doses of Covid-19 vaccine with the fastest progress. In addition, the Company had fully implemented the convalescence regime, organizing periodic health checks and implementing seasonal disease prevention and prevention for all officers and employees...
Along with that, the Company is always proactive, regularly monitoring and grasping the situation of loads, weather, epidemics... to have timely management solutions, ensuring the completion of the annual plan; develop scenarios for flexible operation of the power grid, and always proactively when there are incidents of disease spread in units and localities, abnormal changes in hydro-climate.


 
Accelerating digital transformation - application of equipment management by QR code

Especially, by increasing the application of information technology in all activities, up to now, the Company has successfully completed the task of digital transformation in the year. The company has completed updating 100% of the device directory tree of DH1, DH3 and DH3Ext to the PMIS software; finished and re-issued all 117 procedures registered with the Corporation; fullfiled training tasks on the E-learning system; 100% of work records have been stored digitized, most of the bidding packages have been organized for online bidding; all supplies have been digitized, managed, monitored and updated on the software. Also, the Company has been promoting scientific research and practical application of innovations and technical improvements. Notably, scientific research projects of important significance in the management and operation of thermal power plants, coal handling and unloading have been recognized by EVN, EVNGENCO1 and widely applied.

With specific plans and solutions proposed, the Company continues to maintain stable production and business activities, the operation of electricity production to ensure safety, stability, efficiency and economy; well implement the targets on fuel consumption rate; actively participate in the electricity market; strengthen corporate governance, ensure increased revenue, reduce costs to improve operational efficiency, sustainable development...

Production in parallel with green, clean and beautiful environment protection

Towards sustainable development, since coming into operation, the Company has actively implemented synchronously solutions to parallel production with environmental protection, especially investment in equipment and machinery. modern machinery, rationalizing the production stage in the direction of closed safety and improving working conditions for workers.

Specifically, all thermal power plants of the Company are invested to build a system of wastewater collection and treatment works to ensure QCVN 40:2011/BTNMT for industrial wastewater and QCVN 14:2008/BTNMT for domestic wastewater before being discharged into the environment. Wastewater after being treated to meet standards is studied and partially reused, returning to the production process.

In addition, periodically observe and monitor the environment of factories according to the content of the approved environmental impact assessment report. Emission parameters of factories are transmitted directly to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Tra Vinh province through online monitoring screens. According to the results of the Company's annual environmental monitoring report, the typical parameters of the air environment in the production area, the area around the factory, the environment of wastewater, surface water and groundwater at the sampling locations are within the allowable standards.

Promoting consumption and use of ash and slag as raw materials for the production of building materials and leveling materials is an issue that the Company has paid special attention in recent years. The company has coordinated with the Institute of Construction Science and Technology (Ministry of Construction) to assess, take test samples and issue certificates of conformity with ash and slag standards of factories in accordance with TCVN 12249:2018, thermal ash and slag. coal power as a leveling material and granted certificates of conformity with fly ash in 02 factories for concrete, mortar and cement.

The ash dump of Duyen Hai Thermal Power Company is now planted with tanks like a field

Consumption of ash and slag of factories has been actively improved. With the scale of its operations, the amount of ash generated by the Company is always 02 - 03 times higher than other units, but the consumption rate of ash and slag has always remained stable. Up to now, 16 units have signed contracts to purchase ash and slag from the Company's factories with the total consumption of ash and slag reaching 98.38%. In addition, the Company also closely supervises the transportation of ash and slag, so as not to disperse and affect the surrounding environment. In particular, the revenue from ash and slag is reinvested, supporting the local to build environmental protection funds...

Social security duties in good performance

With a spirit of sharing and high responsibility to the community, over the years, along with efforts to complete production and business tasks, Duyen Hai Thermal Power Company has always focused on social security taskes, actively contributed to the local economic development, improved the quality of life of the people.

Supporting outdoor exercise equipment for Tuoi Ngoc Kindergarten

In 2022, the Company contributed and supported projects and well performed many social security activities with a total value of more than 3 billion VND, specifically financial support to build houses of gratitude for policy families; supporting outdoor exercise equipment for Tuoi Ngoc Kindergarten; giving tablets to students with difficult circumstances; supporting computer equipment, labs for schools; cost support for the poor, policy families, students, students with difficult circumstances, etc.

Ms. Cao Thi Hong Gam - Vice Chairman of Duyen Hai Town People's Committee and Mr. Nguyen Van Long - Acting Director of Duyen Hai Thermal Power Company awarded scholarships to poor and studious students

Notably, the Company annually organizes the social security program "Duyen Hai's Love", visits and gives gifts to Vietnamese heroic mothers and families of war invalids and martyrs; gives Tet gifts to people in the area resettlement in Mu U Hamlet,... thereby expressing the spirit of "mutual love and affection", "good leaves protect torn leaves" in the community.

It can be affirmed that social security has become an annual activity and the task is determined and implemented by the Company every year. The gifts and tasks not only have material value but also have great spiritual meaning to encourage, share, give strength and faith to those in difficult circumstances to rise up in life.

In the following years, beside participating in supporting movements and programs launched by provinces and industries, the Company will continue to actively build social security activities; at the same time, promote propaganda activities to raise awareness for employees about responsibility to the community, build the image of power sector employees "Dedication - Intelligence, Responsibility - Friendly".