Ninh Thuan (VNA) – Trungnam Group put its wind power project No.5 Ninh Thuan into commercial operation in the south centralprovince of Ninh Thuan on September 21.
The 46.2MW project, costing over 1.6 trillionVND (69.5 million USD), comprises 11 turbines supplied by Germany’s Enercon company with an annual output of 136,281 MWh.
Connecting with the national grid, the project also has atransformer station with a 50 MVA transformer designed and manufactured byGermany’s SIEMENS.
Trungnam Group is carryingout a number of power projects in Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Tra Vinh and Ninh Thuan, which are expected to supply 10GW of electricity in total to the national grid when completed./.
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