90-year-old Colonel Nguyen Quy, who used to be director of the Technical Department of the High Command of the Sapper Arm (Ministry of National Defence), is one of the first people to participate in the construction of works on Truong Sa Island and the DK platforms, from the 1/1 to the 1/16 platforms during the period from 1988 to 1996.The KD1/11 platform (Photo: VNA)Quy said the Defence Ministry was determined to build the cluster of DK platforms to protect the national sovereignty in the 80,000 sq.km waters, which has a special importance in terms of security-defence. The waters, which is on the international maritime routes across the East Sea, is also rich in marine resources and minerals.The veteran colonel recalled that at the proposal of the Naval Command and the Defence Ministry on October 17, 1988, then Party General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh signed a decision on the construction of economic, scientific – technological services platforms on six submerged reefs in the country
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By Nguyen Quy April 17, 2021 | 05:06 pm GMT+7 VNExpress
Vietnam’s largest wind power plant begins operation in central Ninh Thuan Province on April 16, 2021. Photo courtesy of Government’s Portal.
HCMC-based energy firm Trungnam Group Friday has put its wind power plant in central Ninh Thuan Province into operation, considered the country’s largest to date.
The plant, which spreads over an area of 900 hectares in Thuan Bac District, has 45 turbines with a total capacity of 151.95 megawatts that costs VND4 trillion ($173.4 million), the Government portal reported.
The wind power plant is combined with a 204 MW solar power plant to form the solar-wind farm complex considered the largest in Southeast Asia. The complex will supply a total 950 million kWh per year for the country’s grid.