BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, March 1. The Ministry of Energy of Kyrgyzstan introduced a new draft electricity tariff policy for the period from 2025 through 2030 for public discussion, Trend reports.
For residential consumers, the proposal suggests an increase in electricity tariffs for usage up to 700 kWh. The rate would rise by 23.8 percent, from 1.11 through 1.37 soms per kWh (from $0,013 - through $0,016), with annual increases of 20 percent thereafter. For consumption above 700 kWh, the rate would increase by 8.5 percent, from 2.39 through 2.6 soms per kWh (from $0,027 through $0,03).
As reported in the justification of the project, 82 percent of households consume electricity within the social norm of 700 kWh per month, while 18 percent exceed this threshold.
For non-residential consumers, such as social and public organizations, electric vehicle charging stations, and energy-intensive industries, the policy suggests annual adjustments based on inflation and a 3.5 percent average exchange rate change for the US dollar.
The proposed project also aims to streamline consumer groups based on similar consumption characteristics and social importance, reducing 14 groups to 7.
Residential consumers will remain unchanged, while other groups such as commercial consumers, social and public consumers (including institutions for the elderly, children’s homes, and religious organizations), budget consumers, industrial consumers (agriculture, industry, foundries, and cement production), energy-intensive consumers (mining, cryptocurrency, and alcohol industries), and electric vehicle charging stations will be reorganized.
As many as 1.5 million electricity consumers are in the country as of January 2025. This includes 1.4 million residential consumers with a total consumption of 7.79 billion kWh and 112,168 industrial and non-residential consumers with a total consumption of 6.4 billion kWh.