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City to bury all overhead power lines by 2025
The sight of overhanging cable tangles in most city streets could be thing of the past by 2025 if a project proposal to bury them goes according to schedule.
The HCM City Power Corporation (EVN HCM City) is putting final touches on its plan to go underground with all the city's power and communication lines.
The plan, estimated to cost about VND4 trillion (US$210 million), will be submitted to the municipal People's Committee next month.
The plan divides the project into three implementation stages.
In the first stage (2011-15), the entire medium and low-voltage power networks and communication lines in roads and alleys in central districts 1 and 3 will be laid underground.
Three to five major roads in each of the remaining districts will also have their cables buried underground during this period.
The first stage will need an investment capital of VND3.36 trillion to lay 9 km of high-voltage power lines, 300 km of medium – voltage power lines and 400 km of low-voltage power lines.
In 2016-2020, EVN HCM City will basically complete the task of laying all medium-voltage and low-voltage power networks and communications lines underground in all central and neighbouring districts.
The second stage will need an investment capital of VND383 billion.
In the final stage, 2021-25, EVN HCM City will basically complete burying power and communications lines in all the districts, new urban areas and industrial parks.
EVN HCM City carried out a pilot project to bury cables last year on some roads in district 1, 3 and 5.
A stretch of Tran Hung Dao Street, that runs between its intersections with Nguyen Khac Nhu to Nguyen Van Cu streets in District 1, became the first site in the city to have power networks and communication lines go underground.
In District 3, work to bury the cables is ongoing on Truong Dinh, Le Quy Don, Pasteur, Pham Ngoc Thach and Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street.
About 90 per cent of power networks and communication lines on Le Thanh Ton Road in District 1 have been laid underground.
This month, EVN HCM City plans to begin the work on Nguyen Trai Street.
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