14:04, 26 октября 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Gulmira MAKANBAI kyzy
Kyrgyzstan will buy electricity and gas from Turkmenistan. Head of the Ministry of Energy, Taalaibek Ibraev, announced at a plenary session.
The deputies asked the official about blackouts in winter.
«No, there will not be any. The task of employees and Kyrgyzkomur is to provide people in the autumn and winter period with heating and electricity. Last week I went to Turkmenistan and agreed on supply of 2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. There are procedures. There are also negotiations on the purchase of 350 million cubic meters of gas. We offered a price. My deputy is in Ashgabat on this issue,» Taalaibek Ibraev said.
He noted that there is 250 tons of coal at the Bishkek Heating and Power Plant to date and heating is already turned on in the capital.