Mongolia has resumed its Blue Horse infrastructural programme. The country’s water security programme envisages the construction of 33 dams on 13 rivers. According to the government, it aims to boost the national energy sector, agriculture and water security and supply more power to the nation’s industry and cities.

The Mongolian Blue Horse programme seeks to create the Egiin Gol hydropower plant with an estimated output of 315 MW. The facility is to be constructed on the eponymous river, the largest tributary of the Selenga River. According to the plan, the hydropower dam is to be 740 metres long, 82 metres high and 8 metres wide along the ridge, situated some 24 km from the mouth of the Egiin Gol River. The created reservoir will cover an area of 154.3 square kilometres and house around 5.7 billion cubic metres of water.