Kazakhstan is strengthening its national power grid. Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov discussed key projects aimed at developing the country's power sector at a meeting with executives from KEGOC and Samruk-Energy. One of the major projects involves upgrading the power grid in the southern zone of Kazakhstan’s Unified Power System. This will increase electricity transmission capacity along the Almaty–Zhambyl–Shymkent corridor by 440 megawatts. The project is scheduled for completion in July 2027. Another large-scale project aims to integrate Western Kazakhstan’s power system into the country's unified grid. Digital transformation was also high on the agenda. The use of artificial intelligence and digital solutions is expected to generate annual economic benefits of 5.5 billion tenge. Automated power plant control is expected to deliver an additional 4 billion tenge in annual savings. The AI-KEGOC platform forecasts electricity generation and consumption a day ahead. Meanwhile, digital monitoring systems have already increased transmission capacity along the North–South power corridor by 250 megawatts without the need to build new infrastructure.
«Artificial intelligence has boosted the accuracy of energy balance forecasting to 98%, taking renewable energy generation into account. In addition, automation has reduced the response time of frequency control systems from 30 minutes to just one second,» said Nabi Aitzhanov, chairman of KEGOC’s management board.
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