DUSHANBE, June 23, 2008, Asia-Plus — On Friday June 20, the fourth session of the Coordinating Electric Power Council of Central Asia (CEPC CA) was held in Dushanbe.
Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, Aleksey Silantyev, the first deputy head of Barqi Tojik (Tajik electric systems) power holding, said that the meeting participants had included CEOs of state-run power companies from Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, as well as representative of the CIS Executive Committee for power matters.
According to him, the major topic of the meeting was the issue of transmission of Turkmen electrical power to Tajikistan during winter months.
“We have reached an agreement that Turkmenistan will supply up to one billion kWh of electricity to Tajikistan per year until 2010,” said Silantyev. “The issue of annual supply of 600 million of Uzbek electricity to Tajikistan should be solved in the near future.”
Kazakhstan’s Joint-Stock Company (JSC) Electricity Grid Operating Company (KEGOC JSC) initiated the establishment of the Regional Coordinating Electric Power Council to promote development of energy sectors of Central Asia’s states and maintenance of reliable parallel operation of the Central Asian power systems.
The first session of the CEPC CA was held in Astana, Kazakhstan on June 10, 2005.
Council Participants include national power companies: Kazakhstan’s KEGOC JSC; Kyrgyzstan’s National Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) Electricity Grid OJS, Tajikistan’s Barqi Tojik Power Holding; and Uzbekistan’s JSC Uzbekenergo.
The key objectives of the Council are to elaborate coordinated development strategy of electric power industry in Central Asia, promote rational use of water-and-power resources in Central Asia, determine coordinated operation principles of Central Asia’s power systems and make decisions on maintenance of their economic, mutually advantageous, reliable parallel operation.
