DUSHANBE, October 9, Asia-Plus — The 32nd session of the CIS Electric Power Council will be held in Dushanbe on October 12.
Heads of state-controlled power companies from 11 CIS states as well as representatives from Turkmenistan and Iran are expected to take part at the session, Nozir Yodgori, a spokesman for Barqi Tojik (Tajik electric systems) power holding, said.
According to him, the session that will be presided by Anatoly Chubais, the head of Russia’s largest power holding Russian Unified Energy System (RAO YeES), is supposed to consider issues related to the CIS power system.
During his stay in Tajikistan, Chubais is also scheduled to visit the site for construction the Sangtuda-1 power plant on the Vakhsh River, construction of which is funded by RAO YeES. He will familiarize himself with a progress of work on construction of the station; as it had been reported earlier, the first generator of the Sangtuda-1 power plant is scheduled to be introduced into operation in December this year.
The RAO YeES head is also expected to hold talks with President Emomali Rahmon. Some sources says it cannot be ruled out that the sides will discuss the issue of completing the construction of the Roghun hydroelectric power station in Tajikistan.
The CIS power system is based on the potential created in the former Soviet Union, where the world’s largest interconnected power system – the Unified Power System (UPS) of the former USSR was
created by the end of the 1980s. The installed capacity of power plants of CIS in time of its establishing amounted to 315 GW, electricity production –1632 GWh.
