Ulaanbaatar
Salkhit Wind Park saving 1.6 ton water each year
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A.Tleikhan MP visited Salkhit Wind Power Plant November 7 to get acquainted with the activities of Mongolia’s first wind park that is operating on turbine generators supplied from General Electric.
The wind park, located in Sergelen soum of Tov (Central) aimag 75 km from Ulaanbaatar, was commissioned in June of 2013. The plant is based on 1.6 MWT capacity 31 turbine generators, annually reducing the greenhouse gas emission by 180 thousand tons and saving 1.6 million tons of water and 122 thousand tons of coal.
This environmentally friendly power source supplies 50 MWT electricity to the Central energy system, informed the CEO of Clean Energy LLC Ts.Sukhbaatar.
A.Tleikhan MP underlined that Salkhit plant has made huge progress in comparison with the last year, to which greatly attributed newly adopted Law on Renewable Energy and the State Policy on Energy. The world is putting away coal as energy source and turning to more clean sources as solar, hydro and wind powers. “Mongolia should do the same”, he noted.
