Kyrgyzstan plans to sign a deal with Russia to import 875 million kilowatt hours of power in 2023-24 to meet its increasing household demand for electricity.
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Kyrgyzstan's Deputy Energy Minister Sabyrbek Sultanbekov said the republic will build a 300 MW capacity solar power plant with support from Moscow. The
Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan have signed a "road map agreement" for a long-stalled hydropower plant that Russia was once expected to build. But with low electricity prices and construction costs running into the billions of dollars, how will they fund it?