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Rosatom Central Asia have stated that the first deliveries of the equipment for a wind farm in Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul region is scheduled to be delivered in the second half of 2025, while construction will start in 2026. Kyrgyzstan’s Energy Minister Taalaibek Ibraev said that “We are starting construction of a wind farm with capacity of 100 megawatts with Rosatom. We are also building a solar farm with capacity of 250 MW with Russian companies in the village of Toru-Aygyr, Issyk-Kul region and a 500 MW gas plant in the village of Chaldybar, Chuy region.”
This is the first foreign wind power project for Rosatom Renewable Energy (formerly known as NovaWind). The technical assessments have been done and several suitable sites were proposed, one of which is close to the village of Kok-Moynok-1, near the city of Balykchy in Issyk-Kul region. A capsule for the construction of the 100 MW wind farm in Kyrgyzstan was laid in September 2024.
The wind farm is expected to generate 250 million kWh of electricity annually and 7 billion kWh over 25 years.
Rosatom and Kyrgyzstan’s Cabinet signed the investment agreement at the end of December 2024.
It had previously been reported that Rosatom could build up to 1 GW of wind farms in Kyrgyzstan. NovaWind previously signed an agreement with the country’s Energy Ministry to explore and implement renewable energy projects. The wind farm in Issyk-Kul is a pilot project. “In the second stage there are plans to work out the locations for renewable energy facilities with combined capacity of up to 900 MW,” the company said earlier.
Rosatom also recently submitted a preliminary feasibility study for the construction of a small capacity nuclear power plant in Kyrgyzstan to the country’s Energy Ministry so it can assess the key aspects and technical parameters of the project. The decision to proceed further will be up to the ministry.
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