WOOD Group has been hired to provide engineering support for the construction of one of the first wind farms in Mongolia.
The Aberdeen-based engineering giant will work as owners’ engineer on the Tsetsii wind farm. This is being built on a site 300 miles south of the capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar.
The company said the wind farm will supply Mongolia with clean, eco-efficient electricity by harnessing the Asian country’s vast and inexhaustible wind resources.
Mongolia is heavily reliant on coal-fired generating plants.
Renewable energy is a growth market for Wood Group, which wants to reduce its reliance on the North Sea oil services market.
The 25 turbine Tsetsii wind farm will have 50 megawatt generating capacity. It is expected to be operational by the end of the year.
Tsetsii is owned by the Clean Energy Asia venture formed by Mongolia’s Newcom Group and Softbank Energy of Japan.
Brian Macdonald, implementation team leader at Wood Group’s clean energy arm, said: “We are delighted to be building on the relationship which was established with Newcom Group on the development of Mongolia’s very first landmark wind farm project in Salkhit.”
He added: “With winter temperatures dropping to -40°C and summer temperatures rising to 45°C it is safe to say Mongolia’s climate as well as the wind farm’s remote location presented a number of challenges that we are pleased to have worked through.”
Wood helped with feasibility and pre-construction planning for Tsetsii.
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