Friday, March 29

Large-scale power blackout in several Central Asian countries

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, three Central Asian countries, suffered massive power outages on Tuesday, AFP correspondents reported.

Much of Almaty, the economic capital of Kazakhstan, was without power, as were the capitals of Uzbekistan, Tashent, and Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.

A spokesman for Kyrgyzstan’s energy ministry told AFP the outages were due to “an accident that affected the regional power grid.”

The Uzbekistan Ministry of Energy said in a statement released on Telegram that the blackout was due to an accident in the Kazakhstan network.

“As a result of a major accident in the energy networks of the Republic of Kazakhstan, there was a blackout in the cities of Almaty, Shymkent, Taras, (in the regions of) Turkestan and adjacent areas,” the statement said.

“The Uzbek power grid, which is connected to the Unified Power Grid, was damaged by an accident that triggered sudden voltage and frequency changes on 530 lines from Kazakhstan,” it added.

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