ASTANA, Kazakhstan, December 2. Kazakhstan has signed three agreements on the construction of wind power plants in the country with a total capacity of 3 GW, Trend reports.
The agreements were signed in Dubai in the presence of the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
As a result, the governments of Kazakhstan and the UAE inked the first agreement on the construction of a 1 GW wind power plant project.
The second agreement was inked by Kazakhstan's Samruk-Kazyna JSC and Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power to collaborate on the development of a project for the building of 1 GW wind power facilities with an energy storage system.
Another agreement was signed between the Government of Kazakhstan, Aktas Energy LLP, and TotalEnergies for the implementation of the project development, construction, and operation of a wind power plant with a total capacity of 1 GW, using a 300 megawatt/600 megawatt-hour battery energy storage system, near the village of Mirny, Jambyl region.
By the end of 2022, there are 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 with a total investment of 180 billion tenge (about $374 million).
In 2023, 15 facilities with a total capacity of 276 MW will be commissioned.