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Japarov promises Kadamjai an end to electricity imports within two and a half years
Kyrgyzstan imports about 4 billion kWh of electricity in 2026 to cover demand, and when consumption peaks in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Russia the extra supply dries up, President Sadyr Japarov told residents of Kadamjai district and Kyzyl-Kiya on 13 October, explaining the one- to two-hour cuts in some districts. He gave two to two and a half years to end the imports.
Astana says Russian gas keeps flowing after a pipeline blast and fire in Penza region
A section of the Central Asia-Centre trunk line ruptured and caught fire near the village of Volchkovo in Russia’s Penza region on 13 October, with a flame of about 70 metres, Gazprom Transgaz Saratov confirmed to Kursiv. Kazakhstan’s energy ministry said that evening that Russian gas deliveries to Kazakhstan and transit to Uzbekistan were running to plan.
Mongolia’s AI-92 rises 500 to 550 tugrik a litre on dearer Russian supply, with 14 days of stock
Filling stations in Mongolia raised AI-92 petrol by 500 to 550 tugrik a litre on Monday, the government’s fuel task force said, because the price of supplies from Russia rose by $190 this month against last. Deputy industry minister B. Munkhtamir put the country’s stocks at 14 days of AI-92 and 31 days of diesel, with 78,000 tonnes of petrol contracted for October.
Dushanbe takes fuel supply to the US envoy as Russia ships 73% of its oil products
Energy and water minister Daler Juma discussed the supply of Tajikistan’s domestic market with oil products with the US charge d’affaires in Dushanbe on Thursday, the ministry reported, without naming sources or volumes. Tajikistan imported 1.37 million tonnes of fuel and liquefied gas worth $1.13 billion in nine months, and Russia supplied 73.2 per cent of the oil-product bill, by Asia-Plus’s count.
Armenian and Azerbaijani officials meet in Goris on where TRIPP’s power lines will run
Representatives of the relevant structures of Armenia and Azerbaijan held a technical meeting in Goris on Thursday on the placement of power transmission lines within the TRIPP project, Armenia’s Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure and Azerbaijan’s Cabinet of Ministers said in near-identical texts the same afternoon. The sides discussed technical questions, coordination between their bodies and the next steps needed to move the work forward.
Mongolia opens the 450 MW Tavan Tolgoi plant to private builders on a 30 to 70 split
Tavan Tolgoi’s 450 MW thermal power plant will be built as a public-private partnership in which the state-owned Tavan Tolgoi company invests up to 30 per cent and private capital the rest, with the selection to go to the Cabinet next week, Economy and Development Minister J. Enkhbayar told the Economic Standing Committee on Thursday, by ikon.mn. On Wednesday the Cabinet backed investment agreements for three more plants.
Mongolia drops the fuel duty to zero at three Chinese crossings through the end of 2028
The Cabinet approved on Wednesday a resolution setting the customs duty on 92-octane petrol and diesel imported through Zamyn-Üüd, Bulgan and Shiveekhuren at zero from 21 October 2026 to 31 December 2028, by the government’s readout on the public broadcaster MNB. At the same sitting export revenue was reported at $16.6 billion for nine months, up 54%, and reserves at a record $8.9 billion.
Uzbekneftegaz expects its gas output to fall 9.5% this year, to 22.8 billion cubic metres
Uzbekneftegaz and its subsidiaries produced about 17 billion cubic metres of gas in January to September and expect 22.8 billion for the year, 9.5% less than the 25.2 billion of 2025, Sukhrob Khamraev, the company’s first deputy chairman for finance, said in an interview with the O’zbekiston 24 channel reported by the business site Spot on Tuesday evening. Monday’s presidential readout printed no output figure.
Tajikistan plans an 800 MW Hutalon dam between Rogun and Nurek at $2.25 billion
A new hydroelectric plant, Hutalon, is to be built on the Vakhsh between the Rogun plant upstream and Nurek downstream, with a design capacity of 800 MW and a preliminary cost of $2.247 billion, the energy and water resources ministry said after minister Daler Juma visited the site on 4 October, Asia-Plus reported on Monday.
Tajikistan’s lower house ratifies a second $300 million World Bank grant for Rogun
The Assembly of Representatives ratified on Thursday the financing agreement with the International Development Association for the first phase of Rogun’s sustainable financing, a $300 million grant the World Bank’s board approved on 30 June, Asia-Plus reported on Friday. With the first grant of $350 million the IDA’s money for the plant reaches $650 million, against about $5.8 billion that S&P put on the remaining work in August.
Tbilisi says free power to Abkhazia cost Enguri 64 million lari and its 2025 profit
Georgia’s fiscal risks analysis for 2027 counts 64 million lari that Enguri lost in 2025 by supplying Abkhazia free, up from 45 million in 2024, bm.ge reported on Friday. The plant sent 1.465 billion kWh there, sold 1.606 billion at home and exported 309.2 million, and the ministry says it would have made a 61 million lari profit instead of losing 3.7 million.
Pashinyan: a modular reactor will not be enough as Armenia's surplus turns to deficit
Armenia had surplus electricity a year and 4 months ago and now has a deficit because the investment programmes already approved absorb all of it, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told a briefing on Thursday, and the modular nuclear plant the government had settled on will most likely not be enough. He also said Yerevan has had no signal of a rise in the price of Russian gas.
Pashinyan tells Rosatom the new reactor will be chosen on price, safety, dates and guarantees
Nikol Pashinyan received Rosatom’s director general Alexei Likhachev on Tuesday and discussed the extension of the second unit of the Armenian nuclear plant and Russia’s proposals for a new unit, his office said. The government is still weighing offers from international partners and will decide soon, and the final decision “will be of an exclusively economic nature, taking account of price, quality, safety, timing and guarantees”.
Georgia switches off its intraday power market for 9 months from Thursday
The Georgian Energy Exchange suspends its intraday electricity market from 1 October to 1 July 2027, under a government resolution of 8 September and a regulator’s rule change of 18 September, the exchange said in a notice dated Tuesday. Trading on the day-ahead market continues as usual. Participants lose access to the intraday trading system for the 9 months and keep their registered portfolios.
Mongolia’s newest petrol train is 5 to 6 days of use, and Russia keeps its diesel ban to 31 October
The 13,000 tonnes of AI-92 petrol that reached Ulaanbaatar by rail in 217 wagons cover 5 to 6 days of normal use, the head of the oil department at the Mineral Resources and Petroleum Authority, D. Davaabayar, said at a briefing on Wednesday. Sixty-eight of the wagons had reached the unloading station. The same morning Russia’s government extended its producers’ ban on diesel exports to 31 October.
Baku ratifies Gran Tierra’s onshore PSA for 5 northern districts, 7 months after its signing
The Milli Majlis ratified on Wednesday, in a single reading, the exploration, development and production sharing agreement between SOCAR, Gran Tierra Energy (Azerbaijan) GmbH and SOCAR Quba-Khazaryani for parts of the Quba, Qusar, Shabran, Siyazan and Khizi districts, APA reported at 15:14 Baku time. The agreement was signed in Baku on 18 February. Gran Tierra holds 65% and operates.
Astana says the Graham act’s tariffs do not reach Kazakhstan, whose gas imports put it near the cut
Kazakhstan is not covered by the tariff measures the law provides for, the foreign ministry told the Kazakh outlet Ulysmedia.kz in a written answer published on Tuesday at 17:08. Its 3 sentences name no volume and no exemption, and they are the first official word from Astana on the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act since Donald Trump signed it on 18 September.
Uzbekistan puts its energy sector on three-year plans and bars projects outside them
A presidential decree of 22 September, reported by Spot on Saturday, makes the energy ministry, the economy and finance ministry and the energy market regulator publish three-year demand forecasts and a three-year supply plan by the end of every October, with investment plans to follow by the end of November. No individual privileges may be granted inside the projects, and no project outside the plan may be run.
Russian gas flows to Armenia again after 10 days of pipeline work: 2.7 billion cubic metres a year through one line across Georgia while Simonyan names four suppliers for the future
Gazprom Armenia said gas deliveries through the North Caucasus-Transcaucasia trunk pipeline resumed on 25 September after a suspension “from 15 September” for planned maintenance and repair on the Russian section, Interfax reported at 12:20 Moscow time. The line carried about 2.7 billion cubic metres to Armenia in 2025, beside the roughly 476 million a year that arrive from Iran in the gas-for-electricity swap, and Interfax put the contract price at $177.5 per 1,000 cubic metres to the end of 2026 or the start of 2027; Security Council secretary Alen Simonyan had given $165 at the border on 16 September, frozen since 2019.
Friday’s Syrdarya trip reached Bishkek and Tajikistan as well: two districts of the Kyrgyz capital were dark until 09:24 while Tajikistan’s grid steadied in minutes
The dawn trip at Uzbekistan’s new Syrdarya plant, which took 1,600 MW off the Uzbek grid at 05:05 Tashkent time and split Kazakhstan’s north-south transit, also cut power in the Pervomaisky and Sverdlovsky districts of Bishkek for two to three and a half hours and set off the emergency automation in Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz operator and the Tajik ministry said on Friday. Kyrgyzstan’s National Electric Networks restored the city centre at about 08:15 and the microdistricts from about 09:24 Bishkek time; Tajikistan’s energy ministry said its system steadied “within minutes” and works normally, and that the cause is being established with the dispatch centre Energia and the neighbouring systems.