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Solar project
China Technology Development Group
(CTDC) has taken part in the
development of a 4.8MW solar farm,
Lunetta, in Ravenna, Italy. The project
has successfully completed grid
interconnection to the local utility. The
Lunetta facility was jointly developed
under a participation contract signed
between CTDC’s subsidiary Linsun
Renewable Energy and a local Italian
developer in July 2011.
China Technology Development
Group – Hong Kong
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MONGOLIA has its first wind farm.
Mongolia’s Salkhit wind project is
located 78km south of the Mongolian
capital, Ulaanbaatar. Funding for the
scheme, which cost $80 million, was
provided by the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, and
Newcom Group, a Mongolian telecoms
company.
Newcom has signed a power purchase
agreement with the Mongolian
government for the wind farm. The
deal comes after September’s
announcement that GE had formed a
joint venture with China’s Harbin
Electric Corporation, a state-owned
company, to build and supply wind
turbines for the Chinese market.
GE was unable to reveal the cost of
the turbines. Speaking about the deal,
GE vice chairman John Rice said:
“This is a milestone in the
development of GE’s relationship with
Mongolia and our teaming with
Newcom.”
Despite having coal resources,
Mongolia’s government has decreed
that 20 percent of the country’s
electricity should come from renewable
sources by 2020. It is possible that
Mongolia could supply all of China’s
electricity through wind power.
Newcom Group – Mongolia
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Mongolia gets its
lfirst wind turbines