CGN to Start Building Southeast Asia’s Largest Clean Energy Facility in Laos

What’s new: The construction of a massive renewable energy base by the China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN Group) in Laos is scheduled to begin in June, marking the start of the largest single new energy project in Southeast Asia.

The project will become the first overseas clean energy base to send electricity back to China.

The first phase will be a 1 million-kilowatt photovoltaic project. It will start simultaneously with the building of China Southern Power Grid’s China-Laos 500 kilovolt transmission line for transferring the power to China, according to Zhang Chaoqun, president of CGN Energy International Holdings Co. Ltd., the overseas clean-energy business unit of CGN Group.