Government Approves Another 150-megawatt Hydropower Dam in Koh Kong

• 23 October 2020
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A meeting of the Council of the Ministers approved a 150-megawatt hydropower dam project in Koh Kong on 23 October and 500-kilovolts transmission lines between Phnom Penh and the Laotian border and from Battambang to the Thai border.

According to government spokesman HE Phay Siphan, the 150-megawatt power dam project is subject to a 35-year investment. It is capable of generating cumulative power of 527 million kilowatts per hour (kWh) per year.

He added that the electricity produced from the dam will be sold to Electricity of Cambodia (EDC) at US$0.0792 per kWh.

The project is located on the upper Tatay River or about 20km upstream of the operational Tatay River Hydropower, which was put into operation in 2015.

According to the same source, this project has been proposed and studied by Chinese firms –Chint Group and Sinomath since September last year.

Besides approving the new dam project, the meeting also approved the 500-kilovolt transmission line from Phnom Penh to the Laos border and from Battambang province to the Thai border.

This 500-kilovolt transmission line project will be used to transfer 2,400 megawatts of power which Cambodian government agreed to purchase from Laos.