Kyrgyzstan to tender land for nine small hydropower plants with 108.1 MW capacity

Kyrgyzstan plans to build nine small hydropower plants with a combined capacity of 108.6 megawatts. The facilities could appear in the Talas, Chuy and Jalal-Abad regions: the Green Energy Fund under the Cabinet of Ministers has announced a tender for the provision of land plots for their construction.

Nine lots with a total area of more than 56.5 hectares have been put up for tender. The most powerful of the proposed stations is designed for 24 megawatts, while the smallest are for 3.5 megawatts.

Two small hydropower plants are envisaged in the Talas region. The first, with a capacity of 24 megawatts, is to be located in the Talas district on the Chon-Chychkan and Tuz-Ashuu plots in the Shumkar-Uy and Chon-Alysh aiyl aimaks; the total area of the allocated land is 20.72 hectares. The second station, with a capacity of 9 megawatts, is planned in the Aitmatov district on the Kok-Sai plot of the Sheker aiyl aimak, for which 3.76 hectares are envisaged.

Three projects are under consideration in the Chuy region. A hydropower plant with a capacity of 3.5 megawatts could appear in the Sokuluk district near the village of Tosh-Bulak in the Sary-Ozon aiyl aimak — 3.2 hectares are envisaged for the facility. A station of 17.3 megawatts is planned on the territory of the Bishkek forestry enterprise named after Bekbaev: a plot of the state forest fund with an area of 3.8 hectares is being offered. Another hydropower plant of 3.5 megawatts is proposed in the Issyk-Ata district on plots of the Kochkorbaev aiyl aimak and the Chuy forestry enterprise with a total area of 5.55 hectares.

Four projects have been put up for tender in the Jalal-Abad region, all of them in the Toktogul district. A station of 15 megawatts is planned to be built on the Bala-Chychkan plot in the Chychkan forestry district of the Toktogul forestry enterprise, for which 10.4 hectares are envisaged. A hydropower plant of 9.3 megawatts is planned near the village of Bel-Aldy in the aiyl aimak named after Abdy Suerkulov, with a plot area of 1.05 hectares. In the same aiyl aimak, near the village of Sarysogot on the Kishen plot, a station of 23 megawatts is envisaged, for which 6.8 hectares are allocated. The last facility, of 3.5 megawatts, is envisaged near the village of Konur-Oguz in the aiyl aimak named after Elmirbek Imanaliev — about 1.25 hectares.

The largest number of projects — four — falls to the Toktogul district, but in terms of total capacity the Talas region leads, where the construction of stations with a combined 33 megawatts is envisaged.

The tender will be held on 15 December 2026 at 10:00 in the building of the Green Energy Fund in Bishkek at 103/1 Ibraimov Street, 4th floor. Applications from potential participants are accepted until 18:00 on 14 December. The tender is for the right to provide land plots for the construction of renewable energy facilities: this does not yet mean that construction of all nine hydropower plants will begin immediately after the auction. The timelines for implementing the projects, the expected volumes of investment and the future developers are not specified in the announcement.