"If the target of 11.5 billion cubic metres is reached, there should be no problems with electricity supply in winter," the minister said. Should a deficit arise, a redistribution programme operates, he added; 24.kg printed no deficit figure, no generation figure and nothing on tariffs.
July set the pace. On 8 July the same ministry put the reservoir at 10.2 billion cubic metres, some 700 to 750 million below the same date in 2025, and named the 11.5 billion target that the minister repeated on Wednesday, vesti.kg reported then. Two months on, the reservoir has added about 1 billion, by the desk's subtraction, and stands 300 million short of the target; whether it is above or below last September's level is a comparison neither report made.
Imports are the other half. The 4.1 billion kilowatt-hours the minister named for 2026 come from four suppliers, and the report gave no split between them, no contract dates and no price.
"If the target of 11.5 billion cubic metres is reached, there should be no problems with electricity supply in winter," the minister said.
China's ambassador, Liu Jiangping, spoke at a press conference the same afternoon, 24.kg reported at 17:27. "A month ago we began deliveries of jet fuel and diesel to Kyrgyzstan. I cannot give exact figures now. But I can say with confidence that fuel deliveries to the country will continue," he said. The cabinet, the outlet recalled, has given Chinese tanker-truck drivers a temporary visa-free entry for the time it takes to deliver and unload, up to five days.
The deliveries now run behind the dollar wall of decree №579 of 26 August, which fixes reference import prices at $960 a tonne for AI-92 petrol and $1,050 for diesel and compensates importers from the budget for the difference with their contract cost. Kyrgyz fuel companies met Sinopec in Urumqi on 17 August, The Times of Central Asia reported at the time; the ambassador named no company and no route.