Total Eren, a subsidiary of the French energy company TotalEnergies, has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the 1 GW Mirny wind project, located in the Jambyl region of southern Kazakhstan. The electricity that will be produced by the facility will be entirely sold to the Financial Settlement Center of Renewable Energy, a public entity owned by the Kazakh Government, to supply the national grid.
The project, which represents an investment of US$1.4bn, aims to build an onshore wind farm combined with a 600 MWh battery energy storage system for a reliable power supply. It is expected to provide power to about 1 million Kazakh households. The wind park, which will comprise around 200 turbines, is expected to come online in 2026 or 2027. TotalEnergies will develop the Mirny project in partnership with the National Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna and the National Company KazMunayGas, which will each own a 20% stake in the project.
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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