Ulaanbaatar-based Clean Energy LLC plans to build as much as 400MW of wind capacity at four sites throughout Mongolia. “There’s huge potential… we could supply electricity to Northeast Asia. That’s our goal,” said Clean Energy chief executive Sukhbaatar Ts, without revealing specific timelines. The company’s most ambitious project is a 250MW wind farm it wants to build in Khanbogd, near the massive Oyu Tolgoi gold and copper mine in southern Mongolia. “The wind resources are very high there,” Sukhbaatar told Recharge. Clean Energy plans to build a 50MW wind farm near the Chinese border in the Gobi Desert near Tsogtu Tsetsi, as well as another 50MW project in Sainshand, on the eastern Gobi Desert steppe. It also intends to develop a 50MW site near the city of Choir, eastern Mongolia. Clean Energy, a unit of Mongolian investment group Newcom, switched on the 50MW Salkhit wind farm — the country’s first and only such installation — in June 2013. GE installed its 1.6MW turbines — which feature 40.3m blades — at Salkhit. Last February, Germany’s Ferrostaal Industrial Projects revealed plans to invest approximately $120m to purchase a majority stake in a 52MW wind farm at an undisclosed location in the eastern Gobi Desert. “The potential (in Mongolia) is enormous — it’s an issue of getting it to market, Steve Sawyer, secretary general of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), said earlier this month in Beijing. rechargenews/wind/1381509/Mongolia-firm-plans-400MW-of-wind
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