TotalEnergies has announced that Chinese firms Shanghai Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and Shanghai Electric Group, along with Kazakhstan-based GCD Partner, have joined a consortium of contractors tasked with designing and building the 1-gigawatt Mirny wind farm in Kazakhstan’s Zhambyl region.
Project ownership and partnerships
TotalEnergies holds a 60% stake in the project operator, Aktas Energy, which was established in partnership with Samruk-Energy and Kazakhstan’s national oil and gas company, KazMunayGas.
Scope of work and timeline
Under the agreement, the Chinese-Kazakh consortium will be responsible for the project’s design, equipment supply, construction and commissioning. The work is expected to be completed over a three-year period and will include delivery of the project’s core infrastructure.
First industrial-scale energy storage system
The Mirny wind farm will also feature Kazakhstan’s first industrial-scale energy storage system, with a planned capacity of 600 megawatt-hours.
The contract for the supply, grid connection and commissioning of the energy storage system has been awarded to French battery manufacturer Saft, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies.
