E. Sadullaev, head of national dispatcher center of Uzbekenergo, said that adopted measures in Uzbekistan will ensure energy security and sustainable work of own power system. “In existing conditions, Uzbekenergo sees no way of further functioning of the Central Asian power grid and Coordination Dispatcher Center “Energia”, he said.

Uzbekenergo official said that the adopted decision will create conditions for further stable and reliable work of national power system.

Sadullaev said that some of member-states of the Central Asian power grid are attempting to satisfy only their own egoistic interests and they do not consider negative consequences, which appear in the result of these actions for other states. He wrote that system accidents and violation of dispatcher regimes appear in some member-states due to incessant facts of non-coordinated action and insubordination of the Coordination Dispatcher Center and rude violation of parallel work regimes.

The Central Asian power grid provides no guarantee from unapproved withdrawal of electricity and protectability of internal power system from external impacts, the article reads. Uzbek official said that all relations are built only on promises and words of honour, which do not guarantee from firm work of mechanism.

Sadullaev said Kazakhstan withdrew twice from the Central Asian power grid in 2002-2009 due to unapproved withdrawal of electricity. He added that Kazakhstan worked in separated power system from 26 February to 11 March 2009 due to misbalance of production and consumption of electricity in the region. At the same time, Tajikistan withdrew 100 million kWt/hour of electricity from Kazakstan without approval.

The article said the similar situation was also observed in early October 2009, which was called with misbalanced work of Tajik energy system.