Kazakhstan to up power generation from renewable resources
By Aynur Karimova
Kazakhstan is planning to increase the share of electricity generation from renewable resources to 3 percent by 2020, to 10 percent by 2030 and to 50 percent by 2050.
The news was announced by Vladimir Shkolnik, Kazakhstan’s Energy Minister at a government hour in the parliament on January 26.
“It will be possible to achieve such figures with the generation in nuclear power plants,” Shkolnik added.
The above mentioned figures are reflected in Kazakhstan’s concept for transition to ‘green’ economy.
In 2014, Kazakhstan generated 73 percent of electricity from coal, 18 percent – from gas and 8 percent – from wind farms.
“The renewable power generation, including small hydro power plants account for only 0.6 percent, which is a very small figure even while Kazakhstan is an energy exporting country,” Shkolnik said.
The electricity consumption in Kazakhstan stood at 91.6 billion kilowatt hours and the electricity generation totaled 93.9 billion kilowatt hours in 2014.
Kazakhstan also imported 644 million kilowatt hours of electricity and exported 2 billion kilowatt hours in 2014.
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