In 2011, 10,787 cases of emergency power cuts and other similar violations were observed in Kyrgyzstan, Akylbek Tumenbayev, Director of Kyrgyz Energy Ministry's Energy and Gas State Inspectorate, stated at a meeting of the ministerial board on Friday, KyrTAG reported.
"A total of 10,787 emergency power cuts, failures of different degrees and violations were observed on electricity supply companies in Kyrgyzstan in 2011," the report reads.
As the State Inspectorate reported, 96 failures of the first and second degrees, and accidents happened within open joint-stock company Power Plants and open joint-stock company Kyrgyzstan's National Electricity Networks.
Noteworthy is that 10,692 accidental power cuts were observed at 110 kilovolt power plants.
"On October 28-29 alone, 242 emergency power cuts occurred in Kyrgyzstan. The main reason is that the electric equipment is obsolete," Tumenbayev reported.
Seventy-five percent of the accidents on the two mentioned days happened in Kyrgyzstan's Osh and Jalal-Abad regions, he said.