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China, Mongolia sign pact on coal-power-UHV project feasibility study

The State Grid Corp. of China and Mongolian Ministry of Energy have signed an agreement on the feasibility study of the first integrated coal-power-UHV project between China and neighboring Mongolia on November 10, state media reported.

The project would include construction of one 34-milllion-tonne-per-annum opencast mine in Shivee Ovoo, Mongolia, one 14×660 MW mine-month power plant, and one±800 KV DC UHV transmission line with transmission capacity of 8 GW.

The project will provide Mongolia’s coal-fired electricity to China, and may also bring Mongolia’s wind and solar power to China in the future.

This is the first phase project for connecting power grids between China and Mongolia and the start of China’s proposal to build global energy grid.

source: http://en.sxcoal.com