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NAMA Support Project Mongolia: Energy Performance Contracting for Residential Retrofitting in the City of Ulaanbaatar Ulaanbaatar, the world’s coldest capital city, is home to approximately half the Mongolian population. Around 20 per cent of Ulaanbaatar’s inhabitants live in prefabricated concrete residential buildings, which make up some 30 per cent of the city’s building stock and are poorly insulated. In the winter, when outside temperatures drop as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius, indoor spaces are also very cold and blighted by mould growth. Improving the energy efficiency of old buildings is therefore a priority for the construction sector and is also included in Mongolia’s climate targets (nationally determined contributions, NDCs). Energy prices are highly subsidised, with energy costs calculated based on the size of the space heated rather than actual consumption. This in turn hampers investment in more efficient building structures and widespread energy saving measures. The transition to a low-carbon development pathway therefore remains constrained by technical, financial, political and institutional barriers. Objective The Mongolian Government is laying the foundations for an energy transition in heating systems for buildings. |
