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A reservoir shoreline below the dam in late autumn, where the Toktogul basin's resettled families once grazed their flocks.

A reservoir shoreline below the dam in late autumn, where the Toktogul basin's resettled families once grazed their flocks.

Investigation

Nobody has published who gets the revenue from Toktogul's extra 240 MW

by Temirlan Osmonov

The Toktogul reservoir held 16.91 km³ of its 19 km³ capacity, 89.0% full, on 22 October. It was falling by 28 million m³ a day as winter generation began, only weeks after the refit of its four units lifted the station to 1,440 MW. The 1970s design was 1,200 MW. On Irad Gidromet's daily reading the level had dropped to 16.69…

A second refinery for Kochkor-Ata was announced with no investor, no crude and no tender

Lieutenant Governor Aidar Maksat told a district meeting the government wants a 9,000-barrel-a-day plant in the Fergana rim town. Nobody has said who would build it, what it would burn or how it would be licensed.

The Times says

Publish the Toktogul annex before the 2027 talks begin

The Toktogul station now rated at 1,440 MW, up from the 1,200 MW of the 1970s design. The reservoir stood at 87.9 per cent this morning and is falling by 25 million cubic metres a day. Winter…

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