ASTANA, Kazakhstan, March 30. Kazakhstan’s total wind energy capacity reached to 1,440 MW at the end of 2023, Trend reports.
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said that the
country's wind energy capacity has expanded 27 times in the last
decade. Thus, the capacity in 2014 was 53 megawatts.
Capacity growth table by year compared to
2014:
| Year | Capacity | Growth |
| 2014 | 53 MW | ----- |
| 2015 | 72 MW | 35.8 percent |
| 2016 | 98 MW | 84.9 percent |
| 2017 | 112 MW | 111 percent |
| 2018 | 121 MW | 128.3 percent |
| 2019 | 284 MW | by 5 times |
| 2020 | 684 MW | by 12 times |
| 2021 | 684 MW | by 12 times |
| 2022 | 1,108 MW | by 21 times |
| 2023 | 1,440 MW | by 27 times |
Meanwhile, Kazakhstan's renewable energy installations generated 6.675 billion kWh of electricity by the end of 2023. This volume accounts for 5.92 percent of total electrical energy production in 2023.
The country currently has 147 renewable energy facilities (over 100 kW) with an installed capacity of 2,903.54 MW: 59 wind power plants with a capacity of 1,409.55 MW; 46 solar power plant facilities with a capacity of 1,222.61 MW; 39 hydroelectric power plants with a capacity of 269.605 MW; and three biogas power plant facilities with a capacity of 1.77 MW.
Furthermore, by the end of 2023, 16 renewable energy facilities with a total installed capacity of 495.57 MW had been operational: 12 wind farms with a total capacity of 437.1 MW in the Akmola and Zhetysu regions, 2 hydroelectric power plants with a total capacity of 3.7 MW in the Almaty and Turkestan regions, and two solar power plants with a capacity of 54.77 MW in the Turkestan region.
It is expected to commission 25 renewable energy projects totaling 599.85 MW by 2027.