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Kyrgyzstan

The Chinese company CNEEC has started the modernization of the Uch-Kurgan HPP

The Ministry of Energy of Kyrgyzstan announces the start of work on the modernization of the Uch-Kurgan HPP. On March...

Kyrgyzstan re-puts up for tender plots for small hydroelectric power plants

The Green Energy Fund under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic announced a repeated tender for the provision...

Kambar-Ata-1: preparations for the construction of the HPP are in full swing

The Minister of Energy of Kyrgyzstan Taalaibek Ibraev held a meeting with the head of the World Bank Group representative...

The President of Kyrgyzstan urged citizens not to interfere with the construction of small hydropower plants

On March 5, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov addressed citizens in connection with the construction of small hydroelectric...

Toktogul HPP began to generate less electricity

In Kyrgyzstan, at the Toktogul HPP, a key facility of the country's energy infrastructure, work has been launched on the...

Kazakhstan

Shardarinskaya HPP changed its shareholder

Risks are growing: will China turn the Irtysh River into its domestic water source

The new Baidibek-ata reservoir is half finished

Tajikistan

Financing of the Rogun Dam: authorities are looking for new solutions

An extraordinary meeting of the company's shareholders was held in Dushanbe under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Tajikistan...

Dam dictates schedule: Tajikistan returned to energy limits

ADB will continue to support the Rogun Dam project in Tajikistan

February 28, 2025

Zarafshona Dam: “green” energy at the cost of nature?

February 21, 2025

Rogun Dam: environmental threat under the guise of economic progress

February 18, 2025

Uzbekistan

Installation of Russian small hydropower plants begins in Uzbekistan

As Roman Efimov, the head of the Government of Udmurtia, announced in his Telegram channel, Dealan Energo from Izhevsk is starting the installation of its small hydroelectric power plants in...

Uzbekistan will send even more water to Kazakhstan

February 7, 2025

Uzbekistan will send 16 billion cubic meters of water to Kazakhstan by October 1 this year. Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nurzhan Nurzhigitov and...

A round table on the Kambarata HPP-1 project was held in Tashkent

January 27, 2025February 2, 2025

A round table dedicated to the further development of the Kambarata HPP-1 construction project in the Kyrgyz Republic was held in Tashkent (Republic of Uzbekistan) today. The event was attended...

The Zarchob-2A hydroelectric power station has been commissioned in Uzbekistan

January 26, 2025February 2, 2025

A small hydroelectric power station "Zarchob-2A" was commissioned at the cascade of the Tupalang reservoir (Surkhandarya region of the Republic of Uzbekistan), the regional khokimiyat reported. With a design capacity...

Uzbekistan: the downside of small hydropower

January 24, 2025February 2, 2025

The construction of mini-hydropower plants is positioned as a way to obtain “clean” energy from renewable sources, which helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. However, it also comes...

Afghanistan

The Water of Discord: how the Koshtepa Canal is changing Central Asia

The lands around Qosh-Tepa are promised to be turned into agro-industrial centers