The share of renewable energy in Kazakhstan will reach 6 by 2025%

The share of renewable energy in Kazakhstan will reach 6 by 2025%

2020 became a milestone period for implementation of the renewable energy indicator in the Concept of Kazakhstan's transition to a "green" economy.

Three percent share in the total volume of electricity production at the end of 2020 is fully provided. The Minister of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nogayev announced this during  the Government's meeting.

As N. Nogaev noted, the documents of the state planning system set the following goals:

Increase the share of renewable energy in total electricity production to 6% in 2025; - by 2030 - 10%; - by 2050 renewable and alternative energy sources should account for at least half of total energy consumption.

- Thanks to the created conditions, renewable energy is steadily growing. Over the past 6 years, the installed capacity of renewable energy facilities has increased almost 10 times – from 178 MW in 2014 to 1635 in 2020" the minister said.

Currently, there are 116 RES facilities in the republic with an installed capacity of 1 685 MW. The generation of green energy at the end of 2020 amounted to 3.24 billion kWh. In 2021, it is planned to put into operation 23 RES facilities with a capacity of 381.1 MW.

Nurlan Nogayev stressed that the development of the renewable energy market in Kazakhstan will continue with the aim of sustainable development and diversification of the energy sector.

The placement of renewable energy sources in the regions is based on the resource potential, electricity demand, the maximum capacity for the areas of the Unified Electric power system and with the readiness of the infrastructure. This makes it possible not to exceed the limits of renewable energy capacity for reliable operation of the Unified Electric Power System of Kazakhstan.

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