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09 June 2004 18:27
Kyrgyzstan resumes electricity exports to Russia
[Presenter] The Kyrgyz Elektricheskiye Stantsii [electric power stations] joint-stock [power-grid] company has
resumed electricity supplies to Russia. The export of electricity was suspended at the end of last year due to the
reconstruction of the Toktogul hydroelectric power station [in southwestern Kyrgyzstan]. Kyrgyz power engineers plan to
sell over 1bn kWh of electricity a year to Russia. This is approximately 14 per cent of the electricity produced in the
country.
[Correspondent] A contract for the export of electricity was signed by Kyrgyzstan with the Inter-RAO YeES [Unified
Energy System of Russia Joint-Stock Company] power-grid company last year. A pilot project was launched last September
and put on ice in December. An agreement has been reached with Kazakhstan [for the transit of electricity through
Kazakhstan to Russia] and new equipment has been installed [at the power station]. Things began moving a few days ago.
The export of electricity to Russia was resumed in transit through Kazakhstan yesterday.
[Abdylda Israilov, first deputy director of the Electric Power Stations joint-stock power-grid company] It is very
important psychologically that we are exporting electricity from remote Kyrgyzstan to Russia. Everybody is pointing to
our country's export potential about which we have talked much.
[Correspondent] The modernization of the Toktogul hydroelectric power station was begun last year for the first time
in the 30 years of its existence using the resources earned from electricity exports.
[Passage omitted: Russia-made equipment is installed at the Toktogul hydroelectric power station].
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