BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov.3
Trend:
Specialists of the Committee for Industrial Development and Safety of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of Kazakhstan have calculated the effect of applying energy-saving technologies in the country in 2019, Trend reports referring to Kazinform International News Agency.
According to the specialists, the value of the achieved savings makes up 28.2 billion tenge ($6.5 million).
Within the framework of the activities of the Kazakh Institute for the Electricity and Energy Saving Development JSC, the State Energy Register (SER) of enterprises is maintained, which includes state institutions and subjects of the quasi-public sector that consume more than 100 tons of fuel equivalent per year, as well as business entities annually consuming over 1,500 tons of fuel equivalent. At the end of 2019, there were 20,533 such entities which passed the state register.
SER is a key instrument of energy conservation policy.
In 2018, the annual savings achieved from reducing energy consumption through the implementation of energy-saving measures amounted to 27 billion tenge ($1.5 million). Energy efficiency has been improved by 472 SER entities.
As a result, the country's GDP energy intensity figure in 2018 decreased by 21.6 percent over 10 years. Since 2013 up to date, SER entities have attracted 302.2 billion tenge ($17.7 million) of investments.
The level of the GDP energy intensity indicator’s decrease in 2019 will be determined by the specialists at the end of 2020.
The total consumption of energy resources by GER subjects in 2019 amounted to 61.1 million tons of fuel equivalent. The share of business – 59 percent, institutions of the quasi-public sector - 39 percent, and government institutions - 2 percent.
Maintaining the State Energy Register makes it possible to monitor the growth/decline of energy consumption, the implementation of plans for the introduction of energy-saving technologies by enterprises, the ability to conduct an annual analysis and energy audit, as well as collect forecast indicators.