Kyrgyzstan offers Turkish companies to build small and medium-sized hydropower plants

President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov during a meeting with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke about the potential of Kyrgyzstan in the field of water and energy resources. This was reported in the press service of the head of state.

So, according to Japarov, the total hydropower potential of Kyrgyzstan is 142.5 billion kWh. However, the degree of development of the country’s water and energy resources is only 13%.

“I would like to suggest considering the possibility of participation of Turkish companies in the construction projects of small and medium-sized hydropower plants. This will bring not only material, but also environmental dividends to our entire region,” he concluded.

Within the framework of the state visit of the President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Kyrgyz Republic, a number of bilateral documents aimed at building up Kyrgyz-Turkish joint cooperation were signed, including a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Energy of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of Turkey on cooperation in the field of energy, energy efficiency and energy conservation, as well as a Framework Agreement on the implementation of the project of construction and operation of hydroelectric power plants between the Ministry of Energy of the Kyrgyz Republic and JSC “Central Asian Investment Holding”.