A wind-powered plant is being built in Sarysu district of Zhambyl region.
The first industrial wind-powered generation plan was launched in Zhambyl region’s mountain pass Muzbel. In Kordai, Talas and Sarysu areas of the region annual average wind speed reaches 6 meters per second and more. Today wind farms are being constructed in Kordai and Sarysu districts of the region.
The largest in the Central Asia joint project of a Chinese company “China Power International Holding Limited” (CPIH) and Kazakhstani company “Visor” is JCS “Zhanatas Wind-Power Station”. The designed capacity of “Zhanatas Wind-Power Station” is 100 mega-watts. In the future it is planned to increase its capacity to 400 mega-watts. “Zhanatas Wind-Power Station” will annually produce 350 million KW, which will be supplied to the country’s power-transmission system.
Zhambyl region has 10 objects of wind-powered stations with the total capacity of 168.7 MW including four hydroelectric generating stations’ total capacity of 15.1 MW, three wind-powered generation plants with the total capacity of 53.1 MW and three solar electric generating stations with the total capacity of 100.5 MW. (Kazinform/Business World Magazine)