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Kazakhstan Plans To Deploy 1.6 GW Of Industrial Energy Storage Capacity


(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) ASTANA, Kazakhstan, May 21. Kazakhstan plans to deploy a network of energy storage systems (ESS) with a total capacity of 1.6 GW and construct its first pumped-storage hydropower plants (PSHPs), Trend reports via the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan.

The project was announced during a meeting of the ministry's Public Council, chaired by Zhakyp Khairushev and attended by Vice Minister Sungat Yesimkhanov.

The development of the energy storage market is driven by the increasing integration of renewable energy sources into the national grid. These industrial storage units are designed to harvest electricity generated by wind and solar farms and release it back into the network during peak consumption hours.

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