Mongolia begins solar-plus-storage tender

• The 5 MW Uliastai solar-plus-storage project will certainly be found in the city of the very same name in the western part of the nation, around 1,100 kilometres from Ulaanbaatar. The center becomes part of a strategy to release 40 MW of solar and also wind generation connected to power storage space in the country's altai-uliastai and also western areas.

Mongolia's Ministry of Energy has actually provided an invite to project programmers to pre-qualify to complete in a tender to create a 5 MW solar-plus-storage center.

The Uliastai solar array, which is being established with the financial backing of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), belongs to the Upscaling Renewable Energy Sector Project which intends to release 40.5 MW of solar as well as wind capability in the nation's altai-uliastai as well as western areas.

The $66.2 million effort additionally consists of 10 MW solar plants at each of Altai City as well as Mörön, a 500 kW solar-wind crossbreed project with storage space in Altai County, a 10 MW wind project in Umunogovi and also a 5 MW wind ranch in Telmen.

The costs

The Uliastai solar-plus-storage plant is anticipated to set you back around $7.95 million, according to the ADB. Programmers have till March 27 to send pre-qualifying proposals.

The Mongolian federal government in September introduced a tender to develop a 10 MW solar plant in Khovd, in the west of the nation. That project is being backed by the World Bank's International Development Association.

Mongolia had around 63 MW of mounted solar generation ability at the end of 2018, according to International Renewable Energy Agency numbers. The country's overall, academic power generation ability, according to the ADB, stands at 1,158 MW. Of that power fleet, nevertheless, just 969 MW seems on the internet because of aging, coal-based standard nuclear power plant.

In 2017, Mongolia needed to import around 20% of the power it required.