“The Ministry of Energy inspected addresses following complaints regarding power limits being restricted to 3 kW and found that smart meters are actually set to a 5 kW limit, Energy Minister Altynbek Rysbekov announced during a plenary session of the Parliament,” the free portion of the agency’s report reads under the headline “Energy Ministry denies 3 kW power limits, clarifies smart meter cap is set at 5 kW”. Everything after that sentence sits behind the paywall. Neither the date of the plenary, nor the number of addresses inspected, nor who first stated the 3 kilowatt figure is in the free portion.
CAW’s brief of 22 October rested on 24.kg’s account of the minister’s remarks to parliament on 21 October: peak-hour limits on household electricity to be lifted in 2028 to 2029 once the Kara-Keche plant runs, and the power ceiling on smart meters temporarily reduced from 5 to 3 kilowatts at morning and evening peaks, a measure the ministry attributed to the generation deficit.
Everything after that sentence sits behind the paywall.
The two reports are two days apart. The free portion does not say which sitting the minister spoke at, so the two accounts may describe one sitting or two, and whether the peak-hour reduction was cancelled, never applied at the inspected addresses or applies elsewhere is not said. By 08:20 Moscow time, two and a half hours after the AKIpress item, 24.kg’s economy and politics sections had nothing on the clarification, and no ministry statement turned up on the pages checked.
By Friday morning the 3 kilowatt figure had two descriptions in the Kyrgyz press, a temporary peak-hour setting reported on 21 October and a denial reported on 23 October, and the minister’s full words on the second sat behind a paywall.