ASTANA, Kazakhstan, July 24. The volume of electricity production by renewable energy sources in Kazakhstan amounted to 3.896 billion kWh from January through June 2024, Trend reports.
Thus, compared to the same period last year, production volume increased by 16 percent. At the same time, the share of green electricity in total production in the first half of 2024 was 6.47 percent.
In addition, most of the green electricity was produced by wind power plants - 2.325 billion kWh. This is followed by solar power plants - 974.9 million kWh and small hydroelectric power plants - 595.36 million kWh.
Meanwhile, Kazakhstan's renewable energy installations had 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, 16 renewable energy facilities with a total installed capacity of 495.57 MW were put into operation in 2023: 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 Turkistan region.
Hence, a total of 25 renewable energy projects with a combined 599.85 MW of capacity are expected to be commissioned by 2027.