To remove local administrative barriers for power interchanges and to switch the energy sector to a flexible market pricing system would be wise for the energy systems to see better adaptability
In September–October 2021, more than 20 of China’s provinces, autonomous regions and direct-administered municipalities (hereinafter provinces) had to face power failures. In most regions, they affected industrial enterprises and commercial organizations.
Restrictions were imposed
on the use of air conditioning...
... billion cubic meters of water, which is significantly below the 19-billion cubic meter capacity. This led Deputy Energy Minister Taalaibek Ibrayev to admit that there might not be enough water next year even for agriculture in the region, let alone for hydropower generation.
This directly affects the downstream countries, in particular Tajikistan, a nation that largely relies on hydropower. These two countries lie amidst an unparalleled crisis, as the already existing power outages can only be expected ...
... regional issues. Its water policy includes restoration of water resources, which makes Astana look much more civilized than its neighbors.
Amu Darya and Syr Darya originate in the mountains and are fed by glaciers. Thus, the key water pools, reservoirs and hydropower plants belong to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the upstream countries that can regulate the flow for all the rest. The system of reservoirs and canals built in the Soviet period relied on cooperation between the republics, as Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan ...
Water-Energy Problems in Central Asia
Aggravation of the water and energy problem (WEP) in Central Asia in the 1990s-2000s is the result of the transition from one energy and water exchange system, created in the Soviet time under the control from Moscow, to new relations in this sector. Moreover, these relations are formed spontaneously, depending on the current economic or political circumstances, without any common and generally recognized concept of the future architecture of the water-energy...
... and other standards.
Currently there is no single political and economic center in Central Asia and the interests of independent states, including the interests in power sector, are often mutually exclusive.
In the Soviet times the development of hydropower and irrigation was interconnected. In Central Asian republics and in the southern part of Kazakhstan an integrated water and energy complex was created under the control of a single center in Uzbekistan. The system allowed equalizing seasonal ...
