Staff Report

2013-06-20

SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan – Kazatomprom, Kazakhstan’s state-owned nuclear holding company, plans in 2014 to start building a 36MW solar power station in South Kazakhstan Oblast (SKO), CA-News.org reported June 19, citing a discussion between SKO Governor (Akim) Aksar Myrzakhmetov and Kazatomprom Board Chairman Vladimir Shkolnik.

The project is part of Kazakhstan’s plan to raise the amount of renewable energy resources in the country to 50 per cent by 2050, according to Ministry of Environment Protection. Currently about 15 per cent of Kazakh energy resources are renewable, mostly hydro-power.

Kazatomprom also will finance construction of a 200-pupil vocational high school in Shymkent within a couple of years, Shkolnik said.

http://centralasiaonline.com/en_GB/articles/caii/newsbriefs/2013/06/20/newsbrief-15