The Kazakhstan government is planning to build wind power plants on its border with China in order to export power. The government believes it could earn up to $60 billion from power exports.
The wind farms are to be built at the Dzhungarian Gate, a natural corridor around 16 km wide and 100 km long. The wind regime in the corridor is extremely good, local reports claim, with the force sometimes sufficient to roll boulders.
The project is being designed by the Institute of Power Engineering and Communications in Alma-Ata. The work, which has taken four years, is approaching completion.
Implementation of the project has been given priority under a strategic development plan which charts the country’s development. However the state does not have the funds to realise the scheme.
The overall plan calls for as many as 280 such projects.
