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BISHKEK (TCA) — As the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) established an intergovernmental Committee on Energy that will meet for the first time in Bangkok 17-19 January, we are publishing this OP-ED by Dr. Shamshad Akhtar, an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Executive Secretary of ESCAP: Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Board of Directors has approved a financing framework of up to €200 million which will be used to finance primarily private renewable energy projects in Kazakhstan with a total generating capacity of 300 MW within the next five years, the Bank said on December 16. Such projects can be in wind or solar power, small hydro plants or biogas. The construction of generating capacity will be allocated €160 million, while €40 million will be allotted to electricity grid modernisation, which is necessary in order to integrate these renewable projects into the national transmission system. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — At a Kazakh-Japanese business forum in Tokyo on November 7, the two countries signed 13 agreements worth US $1.2 billion. The forum took place as part of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s official visit to Japan, Sputnik news agency reports. Continue reading
TEHRAN (TCA) — Iran and Kazakhstan have agreed on the construction of a wind park to generate electricity in Kazakhstan, Iran’s PressTV news agency reported. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — Work is going on in Uzbekistan to assess the country’s wind energy potential in cooperation with Germany’s Intec Gopa and GEO-NET, Novosti Uzbekistana reported citing Dilshod Elmuradov, an energy efficiency and renewable energy engineer at Uzbekistan’s state energy company Uzbekenergo. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan's hydropower can provide 120 million people with electricity, but due to problems in the energy sector it is not able to provide even the country’s 6 million population, said Kyrgyz MP Omurbek Tekebayev. The problems are old including poor management, corruption, and technical and commercial losses. As a result, Kyrgyzstan has become dependent on the policies of neighboring countries, and the state cannot provide energy independence. Continue reading
