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Boston, MA -- (SBWire) -- 05/13/2013 --Demand growth in Kazakhstan remains healthy, reflecting the country's ongoing economic expansion. Plans for new generating capacity continue to focus on conventional thermal sources, with gas taking the lead thanks to the state's substantial domestic resources. Asian influence is growing, with China and South Korea entering the power arena as financiers of and contractors for generating facilities. However, Russia may emerge as the partner of choice if Kazakhstan opts to bring nuclear capacity online.

Although Kazakhstan has vast reserves of gas, the country's power industry is seeking to avoid overdependence on the fuel in electricity generation, and has a diversified policy involving coal, hydropower and renewables. For the time being, nuclear has been side-lined, but may well emerge as a key component of the power portfolio over the long term, thanks to huge uranium wealth. System losses are considerable, and improved efficiency would have the potential to narrow the supply/demand gap significantly. Ongoing high level investment in generation, transmission and distribution infrastructure is therefore necessary, and foreign partners, largely from Asia and Russia, are being lined up for the major projects.

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The key trends and developments in the Kazakh electricity market are:

- Growth in Kazakh power consumption is forecast to average almost 4.3% per annum between 2013 and 2022. This reflects the relative immaturity of the energy market, though the risks to this forecast are largely to the upside as increased hydrocarbons-backed wealth stimulates the economy. Growth in power generation is anticipated to average 4.2% per annum over the period, which may prove insufficient to increase market coverage and ensure adequate supply, unless system losses can be reduced greatly.
- According to government forecasts, the production of electricity will increase to 150.2 terawatt hours (TWh) by 2030 (broadly in line with BMI forecasts), with power demand rising to almost 145TWh over the same period (our forecast is for demand to hit 124.9KWTh by 2022). Existing investment plans in the power sector amount to KZT1,147bn through to 2015, with an estimated KZT9,500bn needed between 2012 and 2030.

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