Total Eren, the renewable arm of the French oil and gas company TotalEnergies, will develop a 1 GW onshore wind power plant in the Moiynkum district of the Jambyl region, in southern Kazakhstan. The project, which is estimated to require an investment of US$1.9bn, is expected to be commissioned in 2026 or 2027. It will also comprise an energy storing system. Total Eren will develop the Moiynkum wind project in partnership with the Kazakh companies KazMunayGas and Samruk-Kazyna.
At the end of 2021, wind power represented 4% of Kazakhstan’s installed capacity with 1.2 GW. Kazakhstan's 2050 Strategy (2013) aims to raise the share of non-fossil energies (nuclear, hydro, solar, and wind) from 3% (only wind and solar) in 2020, to about 30% by 2030 and 50% of the country's total energy consumption by 2050. In May 2021, the government raised the target on the share of renewables in the power mix from 10% to 15% by 2030 (11% reached in 2021). Moreover, in 2020, the government of Kazakhstan announced an unconditional target to reach carbon neutrality by 2060.
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