ASTANA, Kazakhstan, February 14. The Qatari company Nebras Power intends to build a new hydroelectric power station with a capacity of up to 350 MW in eastern Kazakhstan, Trend reports.
A corresponding agreement was signed between the company and Kazakhstan's Samruk Kazyna JSC as part of an investment round table in Doha.
The parties confirmed their intentions to jointly develop the project, and also determined preliminary conditions for cooperation.
It is planned that the hydroelectric power station will be located on the Irtysh River.
The project will provide new generating capacity and will also act as a counter-regulator to the existing Shulbinskaya HPP.
Earlier, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev welcomed Nebras Power's intention to build a hydroelectric power station.
Meanwhile, 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.
In 2022, 12 renewable energy facilities were commissioned with a total capacity of 385 MW with a total investment of 180 billion tenge (about $374 million).