AKIPRESS.COM - The EBRD and Japan are supporting Mongolia’s renewable energy sector with a new project to modernize part of the country’s electricity transmission infrastructure. The project will support plans for renewable energy production in the Gobi desert through wind power.
The Japan-EBRD Cooperation Fund is providing a US$750,000 grant to enable Mongolia’s national transmission company NPTG to modernize an electricity substation near the site of a planned wind farm.
The upgrade will allow the Tavan Tolgoi substation, located 550 km south of the capital Ulaanbaatar in the Gobi desert, to connect the new wind farm to the central grid.
The grant agreements were signed in Ulaanbaatar during the visit of EBRD First Vice President Phil Bennett.