The ministry said records fell on five consecutive days, with 17 July’s 293.4 million kWh the peak so far, 20.8 million above the previous summer maximum. Generation records fell alongside consumption’s.
The system has so far avoided what Kyrgyzstan’s could not on Friday, a cascading trip at peak load. The strain shows at the edges instead: possible short cuts announced for four Tashkent districts on Monday, and the closures and limits that spread from Karakalpakstan’s shutdowns into a nationwide heat emergency over the course of last week.
Uzgidromet forecasts the heat easing from Tuesday, and with it a mudflow warning for 21 to 24 July in the mountain districts of Tashkent region and the Fergana Valley as rain returns. The grid gets relief; the slopes get the bill.