On August 11, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a videoconference meeting on maintaining price stability by increasing food production and guaranteeing the population and economic sectors with energy resources.
At the meeting, attention was paid to the increasing urgency of saving energy resources in the world.
“Therefore, great achievements have been made in the development of “green energy” and the widespread introduction of energy-saving technologies into the economy in our country.
In order to fully cover the deficit in energy supply, studies were conducted in April in each district and city. On this basis, regional programs for saving 4.5 billion cubic meters of gas and 7.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity were adopted,” the presidential press service reported.
At the meeting, it was noted that there was still no significant result in many regions. In particular, Tashkent region consumed 40 million cubic meters, Tashkent city – 19 million, Samarkand – 13 million, Khorezm – 3.5 million cubic meters more than the plan.
In terms of electricity, not a single district of Andijan, Bukhara, Jizzakh, Namangan, Samarkand, Syrdarya, Tashkent region, Fergana and Tashkent city has fulfilled the saving plan.
It was shown that the leaders of the energy complex are not able to systematically organize these things at places.
Since the beginning of the year, a major program for the introduction of renewable energy sources has been launched. In the past period, 430 megawatts of renewable energy sources were put into operation. It is producing 1.2 billion kilowatt hours of electricity per year. This is equal to 60% of the annual consumption of social sector objects.
An order was given to complete the network and transformer repair works planned for 2023 by August 1. However, the repair works of 1,100 kilometers of networks and 402 transformers in the regions have not yet been completed.
At the meeting, it was criticized that discipline in the consumption of energy resources is still not fully ensured.
In the past seven months, 160 million kilowatt hours of electricity and 290 million cubic meters of gas were illegally used in the regions, and 355 billion soums of damage was caused to network enterprises.
