Kyrgyzstan

Population: 
6.3 million
GDP Growth: 
3.5%
Installed Capacity: 
4,046 MW
Electricity Access: 
100%
Regional Partnerships: 
Central Asia Regional Partnership
Regional Cooperation

Central Asia Partnership

In June 2020, EUPP established a new USEA-Central Asia Partnership to provide technical assistance to Central Asian countries to assist them with meeting their regional energy security priorities and to support USAID regional programming. The objectives of the partnership activities are to enhance the capacity of regional stakeholders for integration of renewable energy generation to meet regional governments’ renewable energy targets; to improve their capacity for system modeling and long-term planning required for the establishment of an interconnected regional power system; to help prepare regional stakeholders for the challenges related to the digitization of manual energy processes and associated cyber-security issues; and to support existing and planned USAID programming on power market development to create an enabling environment for the establishment of a viable regional electricity market.

This assistance will be provided through the two workstreams, regional and bilateral. While bilateral programs will be implemented in four countries - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the assistance will also target Turkmenistan within the regional component.

In the Kyrgyz Republic, the USEA – Central Asia Partnership works to assist Kyrgyz stakeholders with power market development. In the first phase of the project, USEA conducted a peer review of the draft Wholesale Electricity Market Concept and the Rules of the Wholesale Electricity Market of the Kyrgyz Republic, developed by the Kyrgyz Electricity Settlement Center (KESC). This review provided KESC with recommendations to refine these concept papers and improve the initial design of the wholesale electricity market and associated institutions in the Kyrgyz Republic. This activity supports USAID programming on power market development in Central Asia to create an enabling environment for the establishment of a viable regional electricity market. In the long run, this effort will facilitate regional power trade which will lower wholesale energy costs and improve energy security not only in the Kyrgyz Republic, but in all other Central Asian states.

The Energy Utility Partnership Program (EUPP) is supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation (DDI) and implemented by the U.S. Energy Association (USEA). EUPP works around the world to promote energy security, clean energy access, and capacity building to achieve self-reliance. The contents of this webpage are the sole responsibility of USEA and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.