The small mining town of Saran is in the very centre of Kazakhstan, 203 kilometres from Astana, with a population of just over 50,000 people entered the history of the country this week.

On January 23, the largest solar power station not only in the former Soviet republic, but also throughout the whole of Central Asia, with a capacity of 100 megawatts was launched here.

An international team of investors and specialists from Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia implemented the project. They did not accidentally choose this city as a place to install a solar power station. Saran is located in the very center of the vast Kazakh steppe.

In the winter there are a lot of sunny days here where 307,000 “green” panels installed on an area of 164 hectares will now convert solar energy into electrical energy, which will be supplied to consumers throughout the country. The power of the new solar power station will be enough to provide electricity for ten of the same cities as Saran.

 

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