Astana Mayor Zhenis Kassymbek announced the city's preparations for the heating season, the capital's akimat reported. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.
According to the mayor, the heating season in Astana lasts on average seven months. He noted that reliable passage of the autumn-winter period is one of the key issues of the capital's life support. Therefore, repair and modernization of engineering infrastructure began back in April.
"As part of the preparation, we are carrying out the following work: on the line of Astana-Teplotransit JSC, we will carry out major repairs and reconstruction of heat networks with a length of 7.5 kilometers; on Astana-Energy JSC, we will carry out major repairs of three boilers, a turbine, a transformer, two hot water boilers, and auxiliary equipment," Kassymbek wrote on Instagram.
Also, the city has begun construction of two additional hot water boilers at CHPP-2 and a third gas thermal station in Telman.
"This GTS will provide centralized heat supply to the Bagystan district and part of the left bank. The capacity of this boiler house is 620 Gcal/hour. In addition, we are completing work on the construction of heat supply networks from the Turan GTS," the mayor added.
Kassymbek recalled that earlier the capital built and commissioned the gas thermal stations Yugo-Vostok and Turan of the first stage. According to him, Astana's energy infrastructure has a margin of safety given the high pace of city development.
In addition, work continues in the capital to develop the power grid infrastructure. The authorities plan to repair overhead and cable lines with a total length of 67.4 km, as well as 68 distribution points, transformer and complete transformer substations.
Also in Astana, construction of the 110/20 kV substation "Kabanbai Batyr" has begun.
"The implementation of this project will provide reliable and uninterrupted power supply to the area of the new mosque, the Prigorodny residential area, and so on. For example, in 2025, the Arai substation, 4 distribution points, and 2 transformer substations were put into operation," Kassymbek concluded.
Earlier, Kursiv reported that Almaty plans to fully implement a "smart" heat supply system using AI by December 2026.