Possibility to Build Power Plant in Shargaljuut, Mongolia

Abstract

There are numerous hot springs in Mongolia, and many are mainly utilized for heating and medicinal purposes, but there is presently no geothermal electric power utilization. Feasibility studies for small-scale energy development projects, however, have been conducted by domestic and foreign developers as Mongolia presently depends on nonrenewable sources of energy for almost all of its electrical power requirements. In this paper, authors intend to show possibility of building geothermal power utilization in Shargaljuut hot spring area by taking below mentioned two main reasons. 1. Shargaljuut is one of the famous hot spring areas and it has highest temperature of surface and relatively shallow (300 m) drillings wells. 2. Shargaljuut is located in north-western part of Mongolia. Electric supply of the western Mongolia is dependent from local small scale power generations and power from Russian Federation. If we able to build geothermal power plant in this area, the way to solve the electricity related problems would be taken carry out.