(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) ASTANA, Kazakhstan, April 8. Kazakhstan's totalrenewable energy capacity amounted to 5,663 MW at the end of 2023,Trend reports.
According to the report prepared by the International RenewableEnergy Agency (IRENA), the country's renewable energy capacity hasmore than doubled over the past 10 years. Thus, in 2014, thecapacity was 2,734 MW.
In addition, compared to 2022 (5,069 MW), the increase was 11.7percent.
At the same time, when compared to 2021 (4,536 MW), the growthin capacity was almost 25 percent, and to 2020 (4,190 MW), theincrease was 35 percent.
As previously stated by the Minister of Energy of KazakhstanAlmassadam Satkaliev, Kazakhstan plans to put into operation 11renewable energy facilities with a total capacity of 259 MW in2024.
The data from the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan shows that bythe end of 2022, there were 130 renewable energy facilitiesoperating in the country with an installed capacity of 2,400 MW (46WPPs – 958 MW; 44 SPPs – 1148 MW; 37 HPPs – 280 MW; 3 BioPPs – 1.77MW).
At the end of 2022, the volume of renewable energy productionamounted to 5.11 billion kWh (wind farm - 2.4 billion kWh; solarpower plant - 1.76 billion kWh; hydroelectric power station - 934million kWh;) or 4.53 percent of the total volume of electricalenergy production. In 2023, this figure will reach 5 percent.
In 2022, 12 renewable energy facilities were commissioned with atotal capacity of 385 MW and a total investment of 180 billiontenge (about $374 million).
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