Central Asia’s Growth Plans Depend on a New Energy Strategy

Less hydropower and more wind, solar, and nuclear energy are needed in Central Asia to erase an electricity deficit and enable the realization of the region’s economic growth and trade ambitions, according to a report published April 23 by the Washington, DC-based New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy (NLI). The report, titled Powering Growth: Solving Central Asia’s Electricity Challenge and produced under NLI’s Silk Seven Plus (S7+) initiative, highlights that Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan have all recently…