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Phú Mỹ Power Plants is a power generation complex located in Phú Mỹ, Tân Thành District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province, Vietnam. The complex is located next to Thị Vải River. Its combined generation capacity is 3,900 MW providing about 40% of Vietnam's total electricity. The complex consist of Phú Mỹ 1, 2-1, 2-2, 3 and 4 power plants.All power plants are fuelled by natural gas while standby fuel is distilled oil. Gas is supplied from Bạch Hổ oil field and Nam Con Son Basin's gas fields.Phú Mỹ 1The Phú Mỹ 1 power plant is a combined cycle plant operated by Electricity of Vietnam. It is equipped by three gas turbines with output capacity of 240 MW each and with a steam turbine with output capacity of 360 MW. Its full capacity is 1,090 MW. Natural gas for the plant is supplied by Vietsovpetro.Construction of Phú Mỹ 1 started in September 1998 and the plant was commissioned in May 2000. It was built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and cost US$530 million. 85% of costs was financed by Japan through Overseas Economic Co-operation Fund and 15% was financed by the Vietnamese government.Phú Mỹ 2–1Phú Mỹ 2–1 power plant is a 900 MW combined cycle power plant with six units. It is operated by Electricity of Vietnam. Construction of the plant started in 1995 and it was commissioned in 1997. This time it was equipped with two 144 MW gas turbines and a 160 MW steam turbine. The extension was commissioned at the end of 2002 by Siemens. The World Bank financed extension through an IDA credit