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On November 26, the plenary session of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan approved in the first reading, the draft law “On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Supporting the Use of Renewable Energy Sources and Electric Power Industry.

Turkmenistan and Russia signed a Memorandum of Cooperation in power sector.

3% of the total energy produced in Kazakhstan is received from renewable energy sources.
Until 2030, this figure should be 10%, by 2050 - 50%.

It is planned to attract loans for Rogun HPP in the amount of $ 340 million. Tajikistan hopes to receive these funds in the near future from European banks.

Kyrgyzstan started receiving electricity from Kazakhstan.

The Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation has published a quarterly review of changes in the regulation of the fuel and energy complex of Russia and the world (Q3 2020).

On November 1, a regular, 39th meeting of the Power Systems Committee of Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (BRELL) was held in the video-conference mode. During the meeting, the issues of updating the current regulatory and technical base of the Electric Ring (EC) BRELL, plans to commission power unit No. 1 of the Belarusian NPP and the results of testing the operation of the Kaliningrad power system in an isolated mode were discussed.

On November 5-6, 2020, in the format of e-learning (webinar), the Executive Committee of the CIS Electric Power Council and the Non-Profit Partnership "Corporate Educational and Scientific Center of the Unified Power System", Moscow, held an international conference "Digital production technologies in the electric power industry. Prospects for the formation of a digital environment for additional education in the electric power industry”.

On November 10, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the appointment of the ex-head of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, Alexander Novak, as Deputy Prime Minister in the Government of Russia and on the appointment of the ex-head of RusHydro, Nikolai Shulginov, to the post of Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation.

The RF Ministry of Justice registered the Ministry’s of Energy order, which will allow to give a start for operation experiment of a new type of micro-energy systems - active energy complexes (AEC).