The Kyrgyz Ministry of Energy has signed an investment agreement with RECA and Rox Energy Global, two Vietnamese companies, to build and operate a 1.9 GW solar plant in the Kyzyl-Oruk village of the Toru-Aigyr rural district of the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan.

Central Asia was an important source of uranium in the former Soviet Union.

Electricity generation in Kyrgyzstan is mainly from hydro (over 90%). The country has no nuclear power, but in January 2022 signed a memorandum of cooperation with Rosatom on the construction of small nuclear power plants based on the RITM-200N.

Kyrgyzstan has 4.4 GW of installed capacity, with 3.7 GW of hydro (end-2020).

Since 2014, gas sales to consumers within the country have grown by 30 per cent, gas transit has increased by 50 per cent, and gas grid coverage has risen from 22 to 30 per cent. In three years (2016–2018), a total of 669 kilometers of distribution pipelines was built, bringing natural gas to an additional 40,500 households.

Strategic partnership between Gazprom and Kyrgyzstan to boost socioeconomic development of Republic