Kyrgyzstan to continue import of electiricity from Kazakhstan next year

AKIPRESS.COM - Kyrgyzstan will continue import of electricity from Kazakhstan in January 2021, State Industry, Energy and Mining Committee Chairman Jirgalbek Sagynbaev told a press conference on December 30. "We suppose to receive electricity until the end of the year and in the first quarter of the next year. With end of winter, our needs will decrease and we will be able to meet needs without import," Jirgalbek Sagynbaev said.
Hydropower capacity of Kyrgyzstan is very big, but these are natural resources and dry hydrological cycle follows after water abundant cycle, he said.
"It is hard to prepare for such cycles. They interchange each other, this is why we have to save water now due to dry hydrological cycle," he explained.