$138 million will be spent on the construction of the second unit of Kambarata HPP-2. First Deputy Minister of Energy of the Kyrgyz Republic Emilbek Ysmanov announced this at a meeting of the parliamentary committee on fuel and energy complex and subsoil use.
According to him, $110 million — is loan funds, $28 million — from the country’s internal budget.
«We plan to complete construction work in 2029», — the official promised.
Let us recall that the agreement to provide an investment loan of $110 million from the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development, the funds of which are managed by the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), to finance the project «Commissioning of the second hydraulic unit of the Kambarata HPP-2» came into force back in 2019.
According to Deputy Minister of Energy Taalaibek Baigaziev, the estimated cost of the project to reconstruct the hub at Kambarata HPP-2 is 1.5 billion soms.
The station went into operation in 2010. Its capacity is — 120 megawatts, but in fact only 90 MW is generated. The rest are, in fact, «locked» due to the peculiarities of the station. Officials want to release them with the participation of a private company «MBT Stroy».
