Duyen Hai 2 thermal power plant began in Dan Thanh commune, Duyen Hai town, the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh on August 3.

Covering an area of 60 hectares, the 2.2 billion USD plant has two turbines with a total capacity of 1,200 megawatts.

The coal-fuelled plant, invested by Malaysian Teknik Janakuasa Group under a build-operate-transfer (BOT) contract, is expected to become operation in the next five years.

After 25 years of operation, the plant will be transferred to the Vietnamese side.

It is one of four thermal power plants in the Duyen Hai Power Centre, invested at a total capital of more than 5 billion USD in an area of 878.91 hectares.