ASTANA, Kazakhstan, December 26. Two new renewable energy facilities will be commissioned in the Jambyl region of Kazakhstan by 2025, said Vice Minister of Energy of Kazakhstan Alibek Zhamauov, Trend reports.
As the vice minister noted, the total capacity of the two facilities will be 120 MW.
Jambyl region occupies a leading position in Kazakhstan in terms of capacity of renewable energy sources.
There are 19 operating renewable energy facilities in the region with a total capacity of 441 MW, including 5 solar power plants with a capacity of more than 251 MW, 9 wind power plants with a capacity of 176 MW, and 5 hydroelectric power plants with a capacity of 15 MW.
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.
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).
