{"id":310,"date":"2014-10-20T16:16:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=310"},"modified":"2014-10-20T16:16:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:16:26","slug":"kyrgyzstan-looks-to-alternative-fuels-ahead-of-looming-winter-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyzstan Looks to Alternative Fuels Ahead of Looming Winter Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oilprice.com\/Energy\/Energy-General\/Kyrgyzstan-Looks-to-Alternative-Fuels-Ahead-of-Looming-Winter-Shortages.html\">Kyrgyzstan Looks to Alternative Fuels Ahead of Looming Winter Shortages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Each winter in Kyrgyzstan the energy situation seems to worsen; blackouts last longer, and officials seem less able to do anything to improve conditions. This year is expected to be particularly difficult.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The winter heating season has not even begun and already lots of people are bracing for months of hardship. A\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #24606c; text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hyxyiF3mHgk&amp;feature=youtu.be\">video<\/a>, posted October 12 on YouTube, depicting Kyrgyz doctors having to perform open-heart surgery amid a sudden blackout, is helping to heighten anxiety about the coming winter. In another alarming signal, Bishkek\u2019s local energy-distribution company, Severelectro, sent out advisories with recent utility bills, describing the situation as \u201ccritical\u201d and begging customers to conserve electricity and use alternatives to heat their homes.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #393939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;\"><\/span>Southern Kyrgyzstan has been\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #24606c; text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasianet.org\/node\/69446\">without gas<\/a>\u00a0since April, when Russia\u2019s Gazprom took over the country\u2019s gas network, and neighboring Uzbekistan said it would not work with the Russians. That has forced residents in the south to use precious and expensive electricity to cook, or resort to burning dung and sometimes even furniture. On top of that, a drought has\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #24606c; text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasianet.org\/node\/69446\">hampered operations<\/a>\u00a0at Kyrgyzstan\u2019s main hydroelectric plant at the aging Toktogul Dam.<br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrgyzstan Looks to Alternative Fuels Ahead of Looming Winter Shortages. Each winter in Kyrgyzstan the energy situation seems to worsen; blackouts last longer, and officials seem less able to do anything to improve conditions. This year is expected to be particularly difficult. The winter heating season has not even begun and already lots of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,263,352,476,694,885],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-blackouts","tag-energy","tag-gazprom","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-russia","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}