World Bank project powers Mongolian villages with Kyocera solar modules
The World Bank project aims to use of solar energy to help improve the living conditions of the herder population and off-grid village communities in the region.
The small-scale projects, which total 305.1kW, are helping to power the electricity needs of the local residents in the Gobi-Altai and Bayantooro villages in the Gobi desert region of western Mongolia.
Kyocera was selected to supply the solar power generating systems for the project because of the company’s specific targeted solar energy experience in Mongolia and the durability of its solar modules.
The Mongolian region can reach very low winter temperatures of -30 degrees Celsius and much of the region has suffered from volatile power supply.
Kyocera began its solar energy business in 1975 and has a history of proactively installing them in rural parts of Asia and Africa.
In 1983, the company installed a solar power system in Kankoi village in Pakistan, before installing another system in Gansu Province in China two years later and a solar pump for an irrigation station in Thailand the following year.
Between 1992 and 1996 the company took part in a project by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization.
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