The article is devoted to the factors contributing to the development of renewable energy sources in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The international practice of development of alternative energy sources in ecology, increase in prices for the electric power and deficiency of energy consumption was analyzed. The negative consequences on the environment and the human body from the functioning of energy enterprises were indicated. The dynamics of growth in the tariff for electricity was analyzed.
environmental factor, renewable energy sources, energy deficit, energy sector, fuel and energy resource, energy.