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Kazakhstan signed agreements on Saturday with French groups TotalEnergies, Emirati Masdar and Saudi ACWA Power to build wind farms with a total capacity of three gigawatts (GW), the Kazakh government announced.
The sites will be installed in the Zhambyl region (South), Jetysu (South-East) and around Kostanai or Akmola, in the North, he said.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s office said in a separate statement that the 1 GW Zhetysu project discussed with ACWA Power during his visit to the UAE would cost $1.8 billion.
The cabinet also said state-owned KazMunayGaz had agreed to establish a shipbuilding joint venture with Abu Dhabi PorGroupoup and mining group Kazatomprom had signed a uranium supply deal with Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation.
(Reporting Olzhas Auyezov; French version Elizabeth Pineau)