In Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, tens of millions of inhabitants have been deprived of electricity on January 25. At issue: a system inherited from the USSR and the cryptomonnium industry.
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The chain reaction started early that morning by an incident on the huge Kazakhstan electricity grid, a vast country as five times France. Then, around 8 am, on January 25, it was the turn of Uzbekistan, a country bordering nearly 32 million inhabitants, to report a general cut of electricity throughout the country.
At 11 o’clock, the press department of the Energy of Energy Uzbek reports the complete stop of two thermal power plants, one in Tashkent, the capital, and the other in Syrdarya because of an “incident On the interconnected network of Central Asia [Riac] “, whose coordination and distribution center is located in Tashkent. In the stride, the other two large centers of the country cease to function, plunging all major cities into the cold in the heart of winter.
More water or heating
The district heating, designed in the Soviet era and directly powered by thermal power plants, goes out. The transport system is firing, paralyzing trains and metro. On the roads, the traffic lights are no longer flashing. Airports are forced to return aircraft to alternative airports. Passengers on the ground can no longer pass the security checks.
A third country, the mountainous Kyrgyzstan, is in turn affected. Photographs of skiers blocked on chairlifts begin to circulate on social networks, before mobile operators are also deprived of electricity. The water supply and heating cease in the capital, Bichkek, due to the pump stop.
Kazakhstan – In addition, seriously shaken by a wave of violence that has made at least 225 dead two weeks earlier – does not undergo the cut only in the south of its territory. But five cities, the most populous, Almaty, the economic capital of the country, are deprived of electricity, mobile communications and the Internet. Accurate, the historic summit, China – Central Asia, which first brought together, a few hours later, on January 25, Xi Jinping and the heads of state of the five countries of the region, escapes general dysfunction. Gathered by videoconference, participants are affecting the concern of the day.
While the current is gradually restored in the three countries in the middle of the day, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan do not delay, however, to accuse each other. The Uzbek ministry of energy points in a statement “An accident on the electricity network of Kazakhstan”. Kazakh side, the versions diverge. The Ministry of Energy tempses with the creation of a “Special Commission” to establish the exact causes of “technological disturbance” in the public operator of the Kazakh electricity network, KEGOC. Friday, January 28, the Minister of the National Economy, Alibek Kuantyrov, said the world that the origin comes “an incident in the power plants in northern Uzbekistan”.
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