A consortium of Vietnam’s T&T Group and South Korean renewable energy company SK E&S plans to invest in an LNG-fired power plant in central Quang Tri province.

The project would take over the discontinued 1,320-MW Quang Tri coal-fired thermal power plant.

A proposal to that effect was put forward at a meeting between Quang Tri authorities and representatives from the consortium on January 24.

With a designed capacity of 1,200 MW, the Quang Tri thermal power project was approved by the Prime Minister in 2013 and had total investment capital of over $2.5 billion. It has yet to be implemented, however.

Local authorities then proposed that the Prime Minister put an end to the project, invested in by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) International Company Limited. The company then sent an official document to provincial authorities to terminate the project.

Provincial authorities then proposed converting the plant into an imported LNG thermal power plant.

Chairman of the Quang Tri Provincial People’s Committee Vo Van Hung asked the consortium to submit plans to provincial authorities as soon as the province completes administrative procedures to terminate the original coal-fired power plan.