DUSHANBE, March 17, Asia-Plus — Projects for construction of hydropower plants on the transboundary rivers in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan are of special interest, Leonid Drachevsky, the deputy head of the Russian state-controlled energy entity Unified Energy Systems (RAO YeES), remarked at parliament hearings on economic integration within the CIS area in the Federation Council (Russia’s upper chamber of parliament) on March14, according to the Russian new agency RosBusinessConsulting (RBC).
On the investment cooperation, Drachevsky said that Russian capital showed its worth within the CIS area lately. According to him, it is necessary to work out a system of measures of state supports for investment projects in the fields of transportation and hydropower.
The RAO YeES official noted that the CIS energy council has been working actively and 10 of 12 energy systems of the CUS states as well as power systems of the Baltic countries and Mongolia now operate synchronously. Armenia and Iran also intend to join this regime, according to him.
“Preparation of the targeted program for creation of unified working regime of the CIS power systems in interrelation with joint use of hydropower resources is of great interest,” Drachevsky said. According to him, it concerns, first of all, projects for construction of hydropower plants on the transboundary rivers in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
In the meantime, the head of the board of directors of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) Igor Finogenov, who also participated at the parliament hearings, noted that Tajikistan and Belarus had started domestic procedures necessary for joining the bank.
