A new combined heat and power plant is intensively under construction in Kyzylorda

At the government meeting chaired by Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Alikhan Smailov development issues of electric power industry and electronic commerce were considered.
Akim of the region Nurlybek Nalibaev reported to head of government on construction of a 240-megawatt, new combined heat and power plant worth KZT 215 billion.
“The new combined head and power plant is a huge and unprecedented project, which will be built at the expense of investor during the years of independence. Steam and gas center is built by turkish company «Aksa Energy» with great world experience. Today, the investor directed more than KZT 70 billion of investments. The preparation of the main installations has been ordered by foreign companies and the equipment will be delivered to the construction site in May this year. Administrative buildings and workers' hostels are being completed, and space is being prepared to accommodate a new heat centre.
220 workers and 50 pieces of heavy equipment are working at the construction site. On summer over 800 workers will be involved. The project documentation for the supply gas pipeline to the center is created at the expense of the regional budget, finances was considered, contracting agency was decided”, said the head of the region.
It should be noted that the launch of facility is planned in August 2025.
Nurlybek Mashbekovich instructed to complete the design of the additional land needed for the construction of a heat and power plant during the meeting after the government session.The Kyzylorda Electricity Distribution Company is entrusted with the task of overseeing the effective use of budget funds and the timely and high-quality implementation of work to modernize the power grids of the city of Kyzylorda for 2024. The Kyzylorda production branch of “KEGOC” JSC will be responsible for taking preventive measures to prevent outages in high-voltage electrical networks, and the akims of cities and districts will be responsible for working to reduce the level of wear and tear on the networks.
On the second issue of the agenda akim of the region noted the importance of teaching local entrepreneurs for development of electronic commerce, which is a new driver of world economic growth.
Today, 40 exporting enterprises are working in the sphere of manufacturing industry of the region. Rice and salt products produced in the region are exported through the "Alibaba" Internet platform. In addition to rice and table salt, cement, glass, uranium and fish products are produced and exported. The regional administration of entrepreneurship and industry was instructed to organize the registration of data of enterprises in Internet marketplaces to increase the volume of exports in electronic commerce.
It is also necessary to widely inform the population about the new payment system launched since the beginning of the year for the prompt transfer of electronic money.