Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 4
By Ali Mustafayev – Trend:
Central Asia’s largest solar power plant will start operating in Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
The power plant’s capacity is expected to reach 100 MW, the Karaganda region’s local government said in a message Oct. 4.
The power plant will be put into operation in 2018. The project is fully funded by direct investments from EU countries and is supported by public and private investment agencies of Germany, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
The power plant is one of the seven green energy projects of Karaganda.
“All these innovative projects were presented at EXPO 2017. Three of them have already been implemented. They successfully solve a number of problems of the region,” said the head of the Karaganda local government’s press service, Aliya Syzdykova.
Currently functioning green energy projects are a biogas plant in the village of Dubovka, which aims at processing organic waste to generate electricity and heat, a hydro-power station at the Intumak Reservoir, and an innovative gas cleaning system ABsalut Ecology, which solves energy problems of the region.