Kazakhstan Passes 1.37 GW of Solar Capacity — and Keeps Building

Industry reporting puts Kazakhstan's installed solar generation capacity at roughly 1.37 GW as of mid-2026, spread across 52 operating solar plants larger than 200 kW nationwide. Over the past six years, renewables' share of the country's energy mix has grown several-fold to somewhere around 7-8%, with total renewable output for 2025 landing near 8.6 billion kWh.

Five new solar projects totaling 92.6 MW are planned for 2026, and three are already online — in the Mangystau, Zhetisu, and Kostanay regions. More is coming: announced plans point to another 570 MW of capacity, including a 100 MW plant in the Almaty region and three projects totaling 70 MW in Kyzylorda region. By some accounts, the country hit its own renewables target ahead of schedule — and the conversation has already shifted to what the next target should look like.

None of this is abstract to us. Our Taza Kuat project — demonstration showrooms for solar solutions — is a bet on exactly what's happening alongside this utility-scale build-out: interest from businesses and households in generating their own power is rising in step with the national numbers, not separately from them. The more solid the country's energy transition looks at scale, the easier it is to make the case to a customer that a rooftop solar panel isn't an experiment — it's a sound investment today.