Kyrgyzstan to raise power limit to 7 kW for electrically heated apartment blocks

Kyrgyzstan's Ministry of Energy plans to raise the permitted power supply limit from 5 kW to 7 kW, but only for multi-apartment residential buildings with single-phase meters that are heated by electricity. The National Electric Grid Company of Kyrgyzstan (NESK) announced the measure.

NESK said residents of such buildings use electricity not only for cooking and household appliances but also as their only source of heat during the autumn and winter period, which creates peak loads on transformer equipment.

In Bishkek alone, 276 apartment buildings fall into this category. For all other household consumers and private homes, the permitted single-phase supply capacity will remain at the existing standard level of 5 kW. The Ministry of Energy and distribution companies previously submitted the proposal to the cabinet of ministers due to numerous citizen complaints about insufficient allocated capacity in the cold period.