The Pugwash Committee of Kazakhstan (PCK) Secretariat reports that on 20.03.2025 in Beijing (PRC), a memorandum of cooperation was signed between the RSE "National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan," the Chinese company China Energy Overseas Investment Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
As part of the Kazakh delegation to China, led by the Vice Minister of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Ilyas B.N., members of the PCK participated: Batyrbekov E.G. – Deputy Chairman of the PCK, General Director of the RSE "National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan," and Miniyazov A.Zh. – Chairman of the Youth branch of the PCK, Director of the Center for Technological Competencies in the Field of Hydrogen Energy.
The parties agreed to establish the Scientific and Technological Innovation Center for Hydrogen Energy of Central Asia in the city of Kurchatov (Abay Region). The new center will serve as an international platform for scientific research, development, and the implementation of advanced hydrogen technologies in the energy sector, including the development of new hydrogen production and storage technologies.
As part of the visit, the delegation familiarized itself with the laboratory infrastructure of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as well as the hydrogen storage materials production process at MGPower. During the working meetings, the parties discussed promising areas of joint research, specialist training, and the search for technological solutions to scale scientific developments to the industrial sector.
For more details, follow the link: https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/energo/press/news/details/961709?lang=ru