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Date
27.05.2024
Focal areas
Climate protection/ energy efficiency
Regions
Mongolia
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CLIENT II project PV-2-Heat featured in FONA newsletter
Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia and the coldest capital in the world, suffers from extreme air pollution. During the seven-month winter period with temperatures as low as minus 30°C, residents are dependent on constant heating. Outdated coal-fired power stations and heating with wood and waste create a thick blanket of smog. As a part of the CLIENT II PV-2-Heat project, an international consortium worked on clean, safe and affordable heating solutions for Ulaanbaatar. The latest issue of the FONA newsletter includes a report on the project.
During the three-year project period (2021 – 2024), the project partners worked on adapting PV-2-Heat systems to the climatic conditions in Ulaanbaatar. The team developed pilot systems, worked on feeding the electricity generated by photovoltaic systems into the local power grid and further developing latent heat storage capsules. With the newly developed systems, the project is laying the foundations for so-called up-scaling, which means that the Mongolian government can expand the sustainable heating system. A sustainability study is also evaluating the solutions for electricity and heat production, considering economic and political-regulatory aspects.
With the end of the project period, the FONA newsletter of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is now also reporting on the project in detail.
During the three-year project period (2021 – 2024), the project partners worked on adapting PV-2-Heat systems to the climatic conditions in Ulaanbaatar. The team developed pilot systems, worked on feeding the electricity generated by photovoltaic systems into the local power grid and further developing latent heat storage capsules. With the newly developed systems, the project is laying the foundations for so-called up-scaling, which means that the Mongolian government can expand the sustainable heating system. A sustainability study is also evaluating the solutions for electricity and heat production, considering economic and political-regulatory aspects.
With the end of the project period, the FONA newsletter of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is now also reporting on the project in detail.
You can find the article here (in German).