ASTANA, Kazakhstan, September 27. Chairman of the Board of KazMunayGas (KMG, Kazakhstan's national oil and gas company), Magzum Mirzagaliyev held a meeting with Senior Vice President for the Asia-Pacific Region of TotalEnergies E&P Thomas Maurice, Trend reports.
At the meeting, a project for the construction of a wind power plant (WPP) with a capacity of 1 GW in the Zhambyl region was discussed.
The issue of cooperation within the framework of the North Caspian project (Kashagan) was also considered.
"The interaction between KMG and TotalEnergies in the field of renewable energy is important for Kazakhstan in light of long-term plans aimed at achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. One of the strategic goals of KazMunayGas is the construction of renewable energy facilities with a total capacity of at least 300 MW by 2031," Magzum Mirzagaliyev said.
By the end of 2022, there will be 130 renewable energy facilities operating in the Republic with an installed capacity of 2,400 MW (46 WPPs – 958 MW; 44 SPPs – 1148 MW; 37 HPPs – 280 MW; 3 BioPPs – 1.77 MW).
At the end of 2022, the volume of renewable energy production amounted to 5.11 billion kWh (wind farm - 2.4 billion kWh; solar power plant - 1.76 billion kWh; hydroelectric power station - 934 million kWh), or 4.53 percent of the total volume of electrical energy production. In 2023, this figure will reach 5 percent.
Last year, 12 renewable energy facilities were commissioned with a total capacity of 385 MW and a total investment of 180 billion tenge (about $374 million).
In 2023, 15 facilities with a total capacity of 276 MW will be commissioned.