Astana, 31 October. The Ministry of Energy has presented the concept “Energy AI Kazakhstan”, a single digital environment in which artificial intelligence would be applied in production and management processes in the fuel and energy sector, the ministry said.
Energy Minister Yerlan Akkenzhenov held a working meeting attended, online, by Dr Kai-Fu Lee, an unpaid adviser to the President and chairman of the board of 01.AI, and by representatives of Q.AI’s Kazakhstan office. The platform’s solutions include early detection of fuel-shortage risks, automation of preparing and checking reports, and monitoring of industrial safety, Lifenews writes.
Particular attention went to digital twins of energy facilities. A digital twin is a computer model of a real object that reproduces its operation: it lets engineers check how equipment will behave and how a given decision will end before taking it at a real plant. The architecture combines sector knowledge bases, information systems and specialised AI agents, programs that carry out specific production and management tasks.
One of the concept’s principles is to ensure technological and information sovereignty: data, computing infrastructure and sector models are to be hosted in Kazakhstan under the ministry’s control. The participants also discussed stages: pilot tests on real sector data, evaluation of effectiveness and scaling up the tools that prove useful. The report does not give a timetable, a cost or the form of 01.AI’s and Q.AI’s participation.
What it means: The ministry proposes to develop AI in the sector through a single platform where data and models stay under its control. For now it is a concept: pilots still lie ahead before use at real facilities.
Who benefits: The ministry and its subordinate organisations, whose analysis of sector data and preparation of reports speed up. The sector, which gets early warning of fuel shortages and accident risk. Kazakhstan, because data and models stay in the country.
Background: The President declared 2026 the Year of Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, and the Energy Ministry is already running applied pilots: AI inspection of power transmission lines with drones, robotic in-pipe diagnostics of heating networks, and an AI assistant that reads gas-meter readings from a photograph in a mobile app, Inbusiness.kz writes.
