Eni SPA and native companion NC KazMunayGas JSC (KMG) have began setting up a 250-megawatt renewable energy-gas energy plant in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan.
The venture is “Kazakhstan’s first hybrid energy plant integrating photo voltaic, wind, and gasoline energy to supply and provide low-carbon, steady electrical energy to KMG subsidiaries within the [Mangystau] area”, the Italian vitality main mentioned in an announcement.
“The venture pioneers the hybrid mixture of state-of-the-art renewable energy crops, developed in collaboration with Eni’s subsidiary Plenitude, and a gasoline energy plant to steadiness and to stabilize the electrical energy manufacturing, general leveraging Eni’s worldwide industrial experience”, Eni mentioned.
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Kazakhstan’s state-owned KMG and Eni, additionally managed by the Italian authorities, introduced the hybrid era venture June 8, 2023. The 2 then signed a “joint affirmation” settlement on the venture January 18, 2024, amongst a set of offers inked at the moment between Eni and Kazakhstani corporations supporting the Central Asian nation’s vitality transition.
Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna JSC (SK) and Eni signed a memorandum of understanding for a number of initiatives together with exploring the potential for constructing extra hybrid crops throughout Kazakhstan. The deal additionally includes “the evaluation of mineral initiatives and the event of different carbon emission discount applied sciences”, Eni mentioned in a press launch on the time.
An SK portfolio firm, NC QazaqGaz JSC, additionally signed with Eni an settlement “centered on the alternate of expertise amongst scientific, technical and analysis facilities to develop technological improvements and human capital, with the intention of lowering carbon emissions in gasoline trade operations”, Eni added.
In Kazakhstan’s renewable vitality sector, Eni has 150 MW in declared put in capability.
Final 12 months it inaugurated its first photo voltaic venture within the nation, a 50 MW photovoltaic facility catering to the Turkistan area. The venture is designed to supply as much as 90 gigawatt hours (gWh) of electrical energy yearly with 93,000 panels and {an electrical} substation, based on operator Eni Plenitude. It should rise on 100 hectares of land within the village of Shaulder and can have a 4.66 powerline for integration into the nationwide grid.
“The development of the Shaulder photovoltaic farm represents the primary essential step for Plenitude within the photo voltaic vitality sector in Kazakhstan”, Stefano Goberti, chief government of Eni renewables arm Plenitude, mentioned in an announcement September 27, 2023. “The plant will contribute to the event of Turkistan Area by making obtainable to the native territory essentially the most superior applied sciences on this subject”.
In 2022 Eni inaugurated its second wind farm in Kazakhstan, with a 48 MW capability, positioned in Aktobe area. “To this point the wind generators of Badamsha II are the most important put in in Kazakhstan, each when it comes to measurement (rotor diameter 158 meters, hub 101 meters) and energy (4.8 MW every) and are anticipated to ship an annual vitality era as much as 200 GWh, which is equal to the vitality consumption of round 37,000 households, and an general CO2 [carbon dioxide] saving of 173,000 tons per 12 months”, Eni mentioned in a information launch March 2, 2022.
Eni’s first wind farm within the nation, the 48-MW Badamsha I, was commissioned early 2020.
In oil and gasoline, Eni produces 60 million barrels of oil equal yearly in Kazakhstan, together with 93 billion cubic toes of pure gasoline and 42 million barrels of oil and condensate, based on the corporate.
Kazakhstan has set an unconditional goal of curbing its greenhouse gasoline emissions by 15 % by 2030 relative to 1990 ranges, based on its Nationally Decided Contribution, or local weather neutrality goal, deposited earlier than the United Nations June 27, 2023.
Eni in the meantime targets to attain internet zero emissions by 2050.
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