QAZAQ GREEN. In the Shieli district, construction of solar and wind power plants has begun with the participation of Chinese investors. Both facilities will be launched in 2025, Kazpravda reports.

The project to build a 40 MW solar power plant is being implemented by China's major energy company China Huadian Corporation. This is its first experience in Kazakhstan. For the project, investors have been provided with an 80-hectare plot of land in the vicinity of the village of Kosuyenki in the rural district of Yenbekshi.

According to Dan Ning, head of the subsidiary of China Huadian Corporation, the Tesis partnership, the cost of the project is 11.5 billion tenge. The station will be built using investor funds.

“We will employ more than a hundred people in the construction of the solar power plant, and after its launch, 10 permanent jobs will be created,” Dan Ning said.

According to the head of the LLP, the benefits of the "green" project are quite tangible. It will reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere by 50 thousand tons. The power plant is planned to be commissioned by the summer of 2025.

The investor also spoke about the non-random choice of the construction site. Given the geographical location and climatic conditions, the Kyzylorda region has a huge potential for solar energy generation. Here, the duration of solar radiation is more than 3,200 hours per year.

The project is being implemented within the framework of Kazakhstan’s energy complex modernization program and China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative, which is forming a new model of international cooperation and development by strengthening existing regional bilateral and multilateral mechanisms and structures of interaction.

During the capsule laying ceremony, the Uranus Wind LLC project for the construction of the first 50 MW wind power plant in the Aral Sea region was presented.

According to Li Chen Song, head of the contracting company Hua Dian Hai Tou, the company installed a 120-meter-high meteorological mast in May of this year to study wind flows.

“This project is the largest in the region,” the contractor noted with some pride. “The cost of the economically viable project is 17 billion tenge. Wind energy generation does not lead to carbon emissions, so when wind generators are launched, the impact of harmful substances on the local environment will be reduced several times. Up to 200 workers will take part in the construction, with the launch 12 people will be employed. The plans include training local specialists, they will undergo advanced training courses abroad”.

As the deputy akim of the region, Ardak Zebeshov, said, today several energy projects are being implemented in the Aral Sea region.

There are already nine solar power plants with a total capacity of 89 megawatts operating in the region, three of which were built with the participation of large foreign investors. The region’s “green” energy potential has not yet been exhausted. The regional leadership continues to actively work to attract investors to this area. For example, a thermal power plant worth 215 billion tenge is being built in the regional center with the participation of the Turkish company Aksa Energy.

It should be noted that investment projects in the region are supported by the regional representative office of JSC NC Kazakh Invest. According to its regional director Murat Balabayev, six projects for the construction of renewable energy sources with a total capacity of 202 MW are currently under implementation in the region, four of which will be commissioned in 2025.

In the Aralsky district, BI Group is implementing a project to build a 30 MW solar power plant, and in Kyzylorda, the issue of building a station with a capacity of up to 2 MW of a Data Processing Center (DPC) is being worked out. The issue of constructing two more solar power plants in the Shieli district is also being considered.

“Construction of these facilities will attract $125 million in investment to the region,” emphasized Murat Balabayev.

“Renewable energy sources are included in the list of priority activities for which investment preferences are provided.”