ASTANA, Kazakhstan, June 25. China Power International Holding (CPIH) will accelerate the implementation of a project to build new wind power plants (WPPs) in Kazakhstan, Trend reports.
An agreement on this was reached during a meeting between the First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Roman Sklyar, and the Vice President of the company, Renaguli Tuerdi.
The parties agreed to speed up the necessary technical processes to commission projects as soon as possible.
Specific issues of the technical implementation of projects were also discussed at the meeting. These include the preparation of substations, the required capacities, and the progress of measurement procedures.
A Chinese company is implementing a project in Kazakhstan for the construction of wind power plants with a total capacity of 1 GW in the Zhambyl and Pavlodar regions.
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.
