HCM City Load Dispatch Centre puts second control centre into operation
The Ho Chi Minh City Load Dispatch Centre has put its Control Centre No. 2 into use to help ensure absolute safety for the southern metropolis’s large power grid.
The HCM City Load Dispatch Centre's Control Centre No. 2 wil help ensure safety for the local power grid. (Photo: sggp.org.vn)
HCM City (VNA) – TheHo Chi Minh City Load Dispatch Centre has put its Control Centre No. 2 intouse to help ensure absolute safety for the southern metropolis’s largepower grid.
The Control Centre No. 2, costing 73 billion VND (nearly 3.2 million USD) in total, is tasked with joiningthe first centre in managing and operating the power network and the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)/distributionmanagement system (DMS) of the entire city, the Vietnam Electricity (EVN) group’s HCM City Power Corporation (EVN HCMC)said on April 7.
The Control Centre No.2 inauguration ceremony on April 7. (Photo: laodong.vn)
To keep power supplyuninterrupted and absolutely safe in any circumstances, EVN HCMC startedwork on the new centre in July 2021 that runs independently from the onecurrently operating at the corporation’s headquarters in District 1.
The Control Centre No. 2 is basedat the building of the Tan Binh District Power Company, a location far enoughto avoid external impacts between the two centres.
The facilities use two differentSCADA software and constantly exchange data while power stations have to sendsignals to and work with both centres at the same time. Thanks to that, if anyof the two encounters hardware or software problems or completely breaks down,the other will take charge of monitoring and operating the entire power grid inHCM City, according to EVN HCMC./.
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The HCM City Load Dispatch Centre's Control Centre No. 2 wil help ensure safety for the local power grid. (Photo: sggp.org.vn) 
The Control Centre No.2 inauguration ceremony on April 7. (Photo: laodong.vn) 
