| Deal #6524 | Version 87752 | Version 88126 |
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General info | ||
| Size under contract (leased or purchased area) |
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| Comment on land area | Size in operation is the reservoir surface area. | At Full Supply Level the surface area of the surface area of the reservoir is 27.5 square km (2,750 ha). Nam Ngum 3 dam’s catchment area is 3,769 square km (376,900 ha)
[Source: CS Energy company & Hobomap] |
| Comment on intention of investment | Nam Ngum 3 Hydropower, installed capacity: 460 MW, developed by an independent power producer (IPP) | The Nam Ngum 3 hydropower project is being executed by Chinese contractors as it is considered a key project under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
[Source: NS Energy]
The Nam Ngum 3 hydropower project has been revised with new developers and owners around year 2014 The old project was 440 MW capacity while the new revised version is 480 MW.
[Source: Hobomap] |
| Comment on implementation status | Commercial operation date was planned in January 2020. | The construction works on the project were started in November 2015 with commissioning expected by 2022.
[Source: NS Energy] |
| Purchase price | 1 400 000 000 | |
| Purchase price currency | US Dollar ($) | |
| Comment on purchase price | Nam Ngum 3 HPP's estimated to cost is around USD1 billion. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved funding of about USD465 million for its construction. | Estimated cost of the project is US $1.4 billion with funding from Chinese EXIM Bank.
[Source: Hobomap]
On November 5, 2021, the Thailand National Energy Policy Council (NEPC) agreed to purchase electricity from the Nam Ngum 3 hydropower project. It approved an expansion of the electricity power cooperation framework between Thailand and Lao PDR and set the tariff for electricity purchased from the Nam Ngum 3 hydropower project at the rate of 2.8934 baht per unit (assumed to be per kilowatt hour).
[Source: Hobomap] |
Employment | ||
| Comment on jobs created (total) | The project also expected to create more than 1,500 jobs
[Source: Vietstock] | |
Investor info | ||
| Comment on investment chain | Nam Ngum 3 HPP is owned by three private sector companies: Thailand's GMS Lao Company Ltd. and Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding PCL, together with Axia Power Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan's Marubeni Corporation. | Nam Ngum 3 HPP is owned by three private sector companies: Thailand's GMS Lao Company Ltd. and Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding PCL, together with Axia Power Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan's Marubeni Corporation.
Nam Ngum 3 (NN3) Power Company, a special purpose company formed by Electricite Du Laos (EDL, 20%), Charoen Sekong Energy Company (CSE, 55%), and EGAT International Company (EGATi, 25%) is the owner and developer of the project.
[Source: NS Energy] |
Local communities / indigenous peoples | ||
| Comment on community reaction | Before the dam construction, a group of environmentalists commissioned to conduct an ADB-funded impact assessment study of the Nam Ngum 3 hydropower project expressed concerns about the impacts that the dam would have on water quality, fisheries and villagers' livelihoods.
[Source: VOA] | |
| Comment on displacement of people | Households located along the upgraded national road and the transmission line may lose housing and parcels of land. | Households located along the upgraded national road and the transmission line may lose housing and parcels of land.
The developer relocated about 150 families who affected by the project development. IR also reported that the project would resettle 523 people within their village territory. Affecting at least 2,455 people downstream and unknown numbers upstream.
[Source: International Rivers & Vietstock] |
| Negative impacts for local communities | Socio-economic, Displacement | Environmental degradation, Socio-economic |
| Comment on negative impacts for local communities | The original EIA filed in January 2011 had significant gaps. It failed to provide complete and accurate terrestrial and aquatic baseline data, the absence of which is problematic in the context of measuring the changing biodiversity due to the construction of the dam.
[Source: Report on U.S. Position on AsDB’s Proposed Loan for Nam Ngum 3 dam] | |
Former use | ||
Produce info | ||
| Comment on use of produce | Most or all of the electric output from the Project will be for export and sale to Thailand.
[Source: Hobomap] | |
| Comment on in country processing of produce | EDL said at the ground breaking ceremony that the project would be able to generate about 2,345 million kWh of energy annually.
[Source: Vietstock] | |
Water | ||
Gender-related info | ||
Overall comment | ||
Meta | ||
Locations | ||
Location #yKiZ643S | ||
| Description | About 130 km north of Vientiane, about 4.5 km upstream of the confluence of the Nam Ngum with the Nam Pha. | About 130 km north of Vientiane, about 4.5 km upstream of the confluence of the Nam Ngum with the Nam Pha.
Nam Ngum 3 is located upstream of the Nam Ngum 2 Reservoir
[Source: Hobomap] |
| Comment | Located on the Ngum River in Xaysomboune Province, central of Laos. The Nam Ngum 3 Hydropower Project (NN3) will be located along the Nam Ngum River in Vientiane and Xieng Khouang Provinces of Lao PDR, upstream of NN1 and NN2 (both operational), downstream of NN5 (operational), and downstream of NN4 (in the planning phase). The Project is set 130 km north of Vientiane, about 4.5 km upstream of the confluence of the Nam Ngum River with the Nam Pha. | Located on the Ngum River in Xaysomboune Province, central of Laos. The Nam Ngum 3 Hydropower Project (NN3) will be located along the Nam Ngum River in Vientiane and Xieng Khouang Provinces of Lao PDR, upstream of NN1 and NN2 (both operational), downstream of NN5 (operational), and downstream of NN4 (in the planning phase). The Project is set 130 km north of Vientiane, about 4.5 km upstream of the confluence of the Nam Ngum River with the Nam Pha.
The Nam Ngum 3 hydroelectric power project is being developed on the Nam Ngum River, a tributary of the Mekong River, in Longcheng district, Xaysomboun, Laos
[Source: NS Energy] |
Data sources | ||
Data source #g69ucdB6 | ||
| File | ||
| Type | Media report | |
| Url | ||
| Keep PDF not public | No | |
| Publication title | Environmentalists Object to Laos Nam Ngum 3 Hydropower Project | |
| Organisation | VOA | |
Data source #dhcLDsL- | ||
| File | ||
| Type | Media report | |
| Keep PDF not public | No | |
| Organisation | Vietstock | |
Data source #XCuPoPKP | ||
| File | ||
| Type | Research Paper / Policy Report | |
| Keep PDF not public | No | |
| Publication title | laohydro2010_sept_final by IR | |
| Organisation | IR | |
Data source #jakSKHOL | ||
| Type | Media report | |
| Url | ||
| Keep PDF not public | No | |
| Publication title | Nam Ngum 3 Dam Hydropower Info by Hobo Maps - | |
| Organisation | Hobomaps | |
Data source #6LR774Gi | ||
| File | ||
| Type | Media report | |
| Url | ||
| Keep PDF not public | No | |
| Publication title | Nam Ngum 3 Hydroelectric Power Project | |
| Organisation | NS Energy | |
Data source #yHRPEzOD | ||
| File | ||
| Type | Other | |
| Keep PDF not public | No | |
| Publication title | Report and Recommendation of the President_Nam Ngum 3 dam | |
| Organisation | ADB | |
Data source #natxwlL4 | ||
| File | ||
| Type | Company sources | |
| Url | ||
| Keep PDF not public | No | |
| Publication title | Resettlement and Ethnic Minority Development Plan | |
| Organisation | Nam Ngum 3 Power Company | |
Data source #JgqQwLPf | ||
| File | ||
| Type | Media report | |
| Keep PDF not public | No | |
| Publication title | U.S. Position on AsDB’s Proposed Loans Greater Mekong Subregion Nam Ngum 3 Hydropower Project for Lao People’s Democratic Republic | |
| Date | 2011-11-03 | |
Contracts | ||