TotalEnergies Says Yes to Big Wind Farm in Kazakhstan
Introduction
A French energy company called TotalEnergies decided to build a very big wind farm in Kazakhstan. The project costs $1.2 billion. The company has legal problems in the same country.
Main Body
On April 24, TotalEnergies said yes to the Mirny project. It is a wind farm with a big battery. The wind farm will make 1 gigawatt of power. The battery can store 600 megawatt-hours. The company thinks the wind farm will work fully by 2029. About 75 percent of the money comes from other places. TotalEnergies owns 60 percent of the project. Two Kazakh state companies own 20 percent each. Later, the project will be part of a new company with a company from the UAE called Masdar. This helps TotalEnergies share the cost. At the same time, TotalEnergies has a problem in Kazakhstan. The government says the company must pay a $4.6 billion fine. There is also a problem about money for an oil field called Kashagan. TotalEnergies works on that oil field with other companies. One of those companies, Shell, stopped new work in Kazakhstan because of these problems. TotalEnergies is growing its clean energy business. It now has 31 gigawatts of clean energy. That is the biggest among big oil companies. It wants to have 100 gigawatts by 2030. A leader at TotalEnergies said the company helps Kazakhstan use more clean energy. Kazakhstan wants 15 percent of its electricity from clean sources by 2030.
Conclusion
TotalEnergies is building a big wind farm in Kazakhstan. At the same time, it has legal fights in the country. This is different from what another company in the oil field is doing.