Eni has reported the initial production of industrial electricity from a 120MW gas power facility, a central part of the 247MW Mangystau Hybrid Power Plant Project in Kazakhstan.
This project, located in the Mangystau Region, is being developed in collaboration with KazMunayGas and Eni subsidiary Plenitude.
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This achievement represents further progress towards building Kazakhstan’s first large-scale hybrid power facility, which will combine solar, gas and planned wind energy sources.
The facility aims to deliver lower-carbon and stable energy to subsidiaries of KazMunayGas in the region.
The project seeks to help meet the country’s energy needs while diversifying and modernising its power sector.
Eni stated that construction of the project required more than two million man-hours to reach the milestone of first power production at the gas plant. The power plant project is being executed in several phases.
After the 50MW solar power plant was commissioned in September 2025 and initial electricity was produced from the gas facility in July 2026, the next phase will see the final commissioning of the gas plant by the third quarter of 2026.
A 77MW wind power plant is then expected to come online in 2027, completing the hybrid structure of the project.
The Mangystau initiative is part ongoing cooperation between Eni and KazMunayGas to strengthen the regional energy supply and align with Kazakhstan’s energy strategy and decarbonisation objectives.
Eni has operated in Kazakhstan since 1992, focusing on exploration and production.
The company holds a 29.25% cooperator stake in the Karachaganak field and participates in the North Caspian PSA consortium with a 16.81% share. Eni also owns 2% of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium project and 5% of the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan project.
Aligned with its decarbonisation goals, Eni has grown its activities in Kazakhstan’s renewable energy market through its subsidiary Plenitude.
The company manages 96MW of wind generation at the Badamsha wind farms in the Aktobe region and operates a 50MW solar power plant in Shaulder, Turkestan region.
Last month, Plenitude began production from the second 200MW section of its Renopool photovoltaic project in Solana de los Barros, Badajoz, in Spain’s Extremadura region.
