“Too much attention has been paid to energy independence in recent years. We have spent $1 billion on this, but in the end, we live with a shortage of electricity,” honored power engineer of Kyrgyzstan Kaliy Rakhimov has said at a round-table conference. According to him, the energy system has not seen any development for…
“We are forced to introduce temporary mechanisms that are able to restrain the growth of electricity consumption,” the Minister of Energy and Industry of Kyrgyzstan Kubanychbek Turdubaev has declared. According to him, the decision to increase the limit of electricity consumption in winter to 1,000 kilowatt-hours was made so that consumers could save money and…
Energy Ministry of Uzbekistan has 19 inked an Investment Agreement for the construction of a new thermal power plant (TPP) in the Surkhandarya region and a Power Purchase Agreement with the Dutch company Stone City Energy. The $1.2-billion, 1,560MW TPP is set to be commissioned at the end of 2024. Stone City is to design,…
Siemens AG and Stone City (the Netherlands) are planning to modernize four thermal power plants in Tashkent, the German conglomerate has said following a meeting in the Uzbek capital. The meeting discussed cooperation with the company in the field of energy, in particular, the construction of power plants and thermal stations, as well as the…
Turkish Aksa Enerji is intending to build two 470 MW and $300 million worth of power plants in the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan, the Energy Ministry reports. The stations are expected to generate 3.9 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. The power plants are set to be built on 7 hectares of land in the…
Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have agreed on mutual supplies of electricity, press service of the Ministry of Energy and Industry of Kyrgyzstan reports. The agreement was reached on mutual supplies of electrical energy in the amount of up to 750 million kilowatt-hours at a conditional price. The supply of electricity from Uzbekistan will take place from…
Ukraine in January-February reduced electricity exports 24-fold YoY, to 58.9 million kWh, the Energy Ministry said in a statement. “In the two months of 2021, electricity exports amounted to 58.9 million kWh, 1.38 billion kWh below the volume recorded in the first two months of 2020,” the report says. (UNIAN/Business World Magazine)