The Ministries of Energy of Russia and Uzbekistan have agreed on the Russian System Operator’s joining the Central Asian Unified Energy System. TASS reported.
«There is a separate Central Asian energy system, which we are not yet a part of. But the System Operator has to join in order to jointly manage the Unified Energy System of Central Asia, we are connected to it. The Uzbek side fully supports this. We will do this in the near future,» the Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said.
He noted that this initiative is related to the commercial export of electricity and the management of flows between countries, which will allow for the prompt balancing of energy systems in the event of a deficit, natural factors and high loads.
«If suddenly something happens somewhere, so that we can quickly support the countries’ needs with flows in order to balance. This is important to ensure the security of the system correctly,» Energy Minister of Uzbekistan Jurabek Mirzamakhmudov added.
