French renewables developer Total Eren has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for its planned 1GW Mirny wind farm and 600MWh battery energy storage system in Kazakhstan.
It will sell all of the $1.4 billion project’s electricity to state-owned utility Financial Settlement Center of Renewable Energy to power the national grid.
Kazakhstan’s national wealth fund and utility KazMunayGas will each own 20% of the project, which will include about 200 wind turbines.
Total Eren – in which oil giant TotalEnergies holds a nearly 30% stake – had previously developed two solar PV projects in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan currently has 772MW of operational onshore wind capacity, according to “uåX˜äŠÊ˜·³Ç Intelligence, the research and data division of “uåX˜äŠÊ˜·³Ç. It has an additional pipeline with a combined capacity of nearly 3GW, including Total Eren’s Mirny project.
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