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The 2018 Laos dam collapse was the collapse of Saddle Dam D, part of a larger hydroelectric dam system under construction in southeast Laos's Champasak Province, on 23 July 2018. The dam collapse lead to widespread destruction and homelessness among the local population in neighbouring Attapeu Province .
There are sixteen hydro power projects in Laos that use dams to store or divert water for electricity generation. The highest dam built so far is the 185 m rockfill and concrete face dam at the Nam Ngum 2 project. The largest reservoir in Laos is the 450 km 2 Nakai Reservoir, created in 2008 when the 39 m high Nakai Dam was closed for the first ...
Electricity generation in Laos is produced by one coal-fired power plant and several hydroelectric dams. 53% of power generated in 2016 came from renewable sources.The majority of power produced from the Hongsa plant is exported to Thailand.
Preliminary construction began in early-2012, but work on the dam itself was suspended shortly thereafter due to complaints from Cambodia and Vietnam downstream. [6] After making modifications to the dam's design, Laos started construction with a ceremony on 7 November 2012. [7] The Xayaburi Dam is the first of the 11 dams planned on the lower ...
The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project, or simply NT2, is a hydroelectric dam on the Nam Theun River in Laos.Commercial operation of the plant began in April 2010. [1] The scheme diverts water from the Nam Theun, a tributary of the Mekong River, to the Xe Bang Fai River, enabling a generation capacity of 1,075 MW, from a 350 m (1,148 ft) difference in elevation between the reservoir and the power ...
The Lao government also awarded Power China with the “Outstanding SME Development Award” and “Special Contribution Award” in 2016 for the Nam Ngum 5 Hydropower station. [2] The Nam Ou cascade dam project has also sponsored Lao students’ education in China; six Lao students were selected to study at Wuhan University starting in 2017.
The current largest dam on Nam Ngum, Nam Ngum Dam (Nam Ngum 1 Hydropower Project) was originally constructed between 1968 and 1971. There are also four other hydropower projects under construction or planned for construction on the Nam Ngum River.
In 2018, the Tay Ninh government commenced construction of a project to bring water from Dau Tieng Lake to the west of the Vam Co Dong River to supply water to communes in Chau Thanh and Ben Cau districts of Tay Ninh province with a total investment of 1,246 billion VND. The project includes a steel pipe crossing the river with a span of 30 ...