Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Energy announced on Thursday (January 5) it intends to adopt additional measures aimed at ensuring the supply of energy services to end-users in extremely cold weather. This includes the prolonged restrictions on the operation of natural gas fueling stations. Besides, the natural gas supply to large production enterprises will be sharply lowered.
The daily electricity consumption of large consumers is to be brought down, and the saved 11-12mn kWh of electricity will be directed to the population's consumption. To prevent major accidents in the energy system, short-term restrictions have been introduced under the schedules approved in agreement with local governments.
An average of 49mn cubic meters of natural gas is delivered per day to ensure the stable operation of thermal power plants and centers that produce electricity. According to the Ministry, 90,000 tons of fuel oil and 280,000 tons of coal fuel have been reserved for these stations.
‘The volume of daily coal delivery to consumers will be increased from 5,000 tons to 8,000 tons. It was noted at the meeting that as a result of the increase in demand for electricity on cold days, the loads in power grids and transformer stations will also increase sharply.
In this case, the dispatchers must strictly adhere to the restriction schedules approved by local governments and regional power grid companies, that is, they will not impose restrictions beyond the specified period,’ the Ministry said in a statement.
It will be ensured that the graphs of restrictions introduced in the regions are announced on the social network pages of all regional power grid enterprises within a time interval of no more than two hours.
Over 1,000 special brigades working 24/7 at electricity and gas supply enterprises were established to eliminate possible network failures during abnormally cold days', the message says.
The Ministry urges consumers to be extremely careful with electrical and heating devices, to disconnect them from the network when they are not in use, to use energy resources as economically as possible, and to strictly follow the recommendations on the prevention of carbon monoxide poisoning.
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