The minister tied the date to the plant’s schedule, 24.kg reported at 12:34 Bishkek: if work keeps to the timetable the plant is completed by the end of 2028, and after its commissioning in 2029 the capacity limits at peak hours are to be fully lifted. The outlet’s headline gives 2029 and its first sentence 2028 to 2029. Short-term cover comes from the Kara-Keche plant and small hydropower plants, long-term from Kambarata-1.
The limit is a meter setting. In the morning and evening peaks the power ceiling on smart meters is temporarily reduced from 5 to 3 kilowatts, a measure the ministry attributes to the generation deficit. By the ministry’s data the country buys about 4 billion kilowatt-hours a year abroad, and in winter the supplier countries are short too, which limits what they can send.
The gas side of the same sitting pointed the other way. Arzymat Aldayarov, deputy general director of Gazprom Kyrgyzstan, told parliament that no new residential districts or villages will be connected to gas in 2027 and 2028, 24.kg reported at 13:05. The company’s investment in those two years goes to rebuilding the Malovodnoye gas distribution station south-west of Bishkek, from 10,000 to 80,000 cubic metres an hour, and a trunk pipeline under construction in Kazakhstan is due in 2028. Gasification stands at 44% of the country by the ministry’s figure for this year.
The limit is a meter setting.
President Sadyr Japarov addressed the deficit the same day at a national meeting on the strategic tasks of the coming five years, 24.kg reported at 15:10: grid modernisation and new generation, with Kambarata-1, the Kara-Keche plant and small and medium hydropower named, and a pledge of stable fuel supplies and more domestic fuel production, without figures.
Rysbekov’s timetable is the first with a year attached to the end of the limits. It rests on a plant still under construction and, for the export turn Japarov promised Batken residents, on Kambarata-1, which carries no completion date on any of the day’s pages.