Chinese Government provides RMB 100 million loan for Shwekyin-Tharyargone Transmission Line and Namsan-Pin Pak Transmission Line Construction Project

According to the Government of Myanmar’s Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development, the Chinese Government provided an RMB 100 million loan to the Government of Myanmar (between 2006 and 2011) for the Shwekyin-Tharyargone Transmission Line (ေရႊက်င္-သာယာကုန္းဓာတ္အားလုိင္း) and Nansan-Pinpet Transmission Line (နမ္ဆန္-ပင္းပက္ဓာတ္အားလုိင္း) Construction Project. The purpose of this project was to (a) construct a 25.62 mile, 230kV transmission line from the Shwegyin (Shwekyin) hydroelectric power plant to the Tharyagone (Taryargone) substation and then into the national grid, and (b) construct a a 43.13 mile, 132kV transmission line from Nansan in the township of Nansang (နမ့်စန်မြို့နယ်) to Pinpet in the nearby township of Hopong (ဟိုပုံး). Construction of the Shwegyin (Shwekyin) hydroelectric power plant began in 2002 and its first generator was operational in December 2010. The feasibility study for the plant was carried out in 2001. The plant was officially opened on October 22, 2011. However, power was already being transmitted through the power lines as of March 2011. China Gezhouba Water & Power (Group) Co. Ltd was the contractor responsible for implementation of the power plant. However, it is unclear which contractor was responsible for the construction of the power lines.

Additional details

1. This project is also known as the Shwekyin-Tharyargone Transmission Line and Namsan (Namhsan)-Pin Pak Transmission Line Construction Project. The Burmese project title is ေရႊက်င္-သာယာကုန္းဓာတ္အားလုိင္းနမ္ဆန္-ပင္းပက္ဓာတ္အားလုိင္း. 2. The loan commitment year is unknown. However, since the Government of Myanmar’s Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development reports that the loan was contracted between 2006 and we know that the transmission lines were operational as of early 2011, we assume for the time being that the loan was contracted at the beginning (2006) of this period.

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