{"id":7018,"date":"2026-06-04T02:14:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=7018"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:14:46","slug":"three-central-asian-countries-jointly-building-2000-mw-hydropower-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2026\/06\/04\/three-central-asian-countries-jointly-building-2000-mw-hydropower-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Central Asian countries jointly building 2,000 MW hydropower plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link: https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/04\/25\/three-central-asian-countries-jointly-building-2000-mw-hydropower-plant<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are set to launch a joint hydropower plant. This plant will have a capacity of nearly 2000MW. The location of this plant will by in Kyrgyzstan near the Naryn River. This plant will hopefully revolutionize the three states due to this being able to produce the power of two nuclear reactors, roughly 1.5million home will be powered. Interestingly the project will not be financed in totality by any of the states but by the World Bank. This movement falls in line with many of the states in the region aiming to be 100% green powered by 2037. Notably this is one brick in the wall of the many other projects that Kazakhstan has undertaken to reach this goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im not sure how to feel about this project. It is supposed to be able to power the homes of so many and hopefully put the states more so on the world stage with more production capacity. However due to their proximity to China I am not so sure that even if they do accomplish this goal it will do much for the health of the earth. They may get a round of applause in the UN but that does not equate to actual growth. Additionally since they are taking money from the world bank to do this there are some concerns if this project fails how much money are they going to be losing just for the sake of going green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three states – I think that they will continue to improve relations at the upcoming summits during the summer. I do not really see a world in which this deal falls apart, the only thing that I could think of is if there is a problem with the water supply coming from Tajikistan. However this is unlikely since Tajikistan is being paid for their water. I could see some push back from the Chinese, they may not like the fact that states that are so close to their border are starting to economically unify. We may see them try and intervene to disrupt the economic faction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can see elements of soft power and energy in this. Energy – The damn will be able to power many houses and places that may end up helping the states to advance. For so long have these places been the laughing stock of the world stage apart from Kazak due to their recourses. If this makes it way through and is successful this may be a new page for the states. Soft power – we may see an increase in recourse production in these states due to the increased energy. This may draw in other outside powers looking for alliances and deals to protect their interest in these states. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link: https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/04\/25\/three-central-asian-countries-jointly-building-2000-mw-hydropower-plant Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are set to launch a joint hydropower plant. This plant will have a capacity of nearly 2000MW. The location of this plant will by in Kyrgyzstan near the Naryn River. This plant will hopefully revolutionize the three states due to this being able to produce the power of two nuclear reactors, roughly 1.5million home… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7019,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions\/7019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}