The Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan has developed draft amendments to the legislation on heat and electricity, El.kz reports with reference to the press service of the department.
It is proposed to regulate and resolve the development of the thermal power industry, to strengthen responsibility for technological violations at the country's energy enterprises, to regulate the responsibility of wholesale market entities for non-compliance with daily production-consumption schedules, as well as to promote the further development of competition in the electricity market.
"The Ministry notes that deviations from the daily schedules of domestic consumers create imbalances in the unified electric power system of Kazakhstan, which, in turn, affects the mode of parallel operation of neighboring energy systems within the framework of historically formed infrastructure.
At the same time, an imbalance in the energy system of one country, synchronously working with other energy systems, adversely affects all participants in parallel work and can lead to self-isolation of one of the systems if critical indicators of imbalance in the energy system are reached. During the heating season of 2021-2022, the imbalance of electrical energy reached 1,500 MW (with an allowable 150 MW), which was covered by the energy system of the Russian Federation," the ministry said in a press release.
The draft concept was published on the portal "Open RLA" for expert and public approval.