Kazakh energy system to shift to separate work regime with Central Asia

Kazakhstan, Astana, Feb. 26 / Trend , K.Arinova/

Kazakhstan's united energy network shifted to a separate regime with the United Energy System (UES) of Central Asia, Public Relations Department Director Marat Muhammedsaliyev told Trend .

"This measure will enable to provide reliability of local consumers' energy supply and stable work of the Kazakh National Electric Network (NEN)," Muhammedsaliyev said.

Muhammedsaliyev said that they observed imbalance of production and electricity use in the Central Asian countries. On Feb. 26, the unplanned use of the Tajik energy system reached 84 million kilowatt per hour.

"Thus, the North-Southern Kazakhstan transit is loaded at most (1,000-1,100 megawatt) at a parallel work regime with the UES of Central Asia. It leads to increasing facts of capacity device scuffing to 20-30 times per hour (or 403 cases since earlier 2009)," Muhammedsaliyev said. "Four emergency transit breaks took place with cutoff with 230-360 megawatt limitation in the south and central part of Kazakhstan."

Under absence of capacity reserved at the Central Asian countries' energy systems, separating transit threatens with cascade cut of frequencies followed by fully cancelling of power.

"To avoid negative consequences, the Kazakh government examined early to shift to a separate work regime with the UES Central Asia with separating balance attachment borders," Muhammedsaliyev said.