Uzbekistan cuts power generation by 0.8% in Jan-Sep

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan has reduced the power production by 0.8% year-on-year to 36.81 billion kilowatt per hour in January-September 2009, the country’s state statistics committee said.

During this period, the Uzbek power stations have delivered about 13.3 million gigacalories of heat energy (down 6.5%) to the population and enterprises.

Over 98% of the electricity produced in Uzbekistan fells to share of enterprises of Uzbekenergo state joint-stock company. Uzbekenergo has 7 thermal power plants, 6 companies producing hydroelectric power and 3 combined heat and power.