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• Kazakhstan Is Pulling The Plug On Crypto Miners Amid Power Shortages

  Published 20 October 2021 | viewed 2,068 times

  Kazakhstan’s national grid operator has begun rationing electricity to the country’s biggest consumers, likely targeting cryptocurrency mining farms. Facing a sudden energy shortage, officials must…

• China Eyes Kazakh Coal As Energy Demand Soars

  Published 09 October 2021 | viewed 1,329 times

  China is the world’s biggest coal consumer. Neighboring Kazakhstan sits on some of the world’s biggest coal reserves. Yet they have never done much business…

• Will Tajikistan Turn The Taliban’s Power Off?

  Published 07 October 2021 | viewed 3,536 times

  As anyone in business knows, you don’t get to choose your customers. So Tajikistan is in a curious position: It is vehemently opposed to the…

• The Spoils Of War: How Azerbaijan Took Control Of 30 Hydropower Plants

  Published 07 October 2021 | viewed 3,101 times

  Before last year, energy was one of the bright spots in Nagorno-Karabakh’s economy. The de facto authorities had built a network of small hydropower plants…

• Azerbaijan And Turkey’s Latest Gas Deal Shrouded In Mystery

  Published 28 September 2021 | viewed 1,495 times

  After almost a year of intense negotiations, Azerbaijan and Turkey have finally concluded a new deal to replace the 20-year-old contract that had governed their…

• The Afghanistan Crisis Could Destabilize The Region

  Published 17 August 2021 | viewed 2,746 times

  Governments across Central Asia appear as stunned as the rest of the international community in the face of the rapid disintegration of order in neighboring…

• Why Won’t Foreign Investors Back Kazakhstan’s Renewable Revolution?

  Published 28 July 2021 | viewed 678 times

  In May, Kazakhstan’s president upped the stakes for the country’s renewable energy agenda. The plan is no longer for 10 percent of the country’s power…

• Armenia Looks At UAE To Help Build Major Solar Plants

  Published 26 July 2021 | viewed 1,001 times

  The Armenian government is looking to expand the country’s renewable energy capacity with an ambitious plan to build two new solar power plants. This month,…

• Azerbaijan Desperately Needs To Diversify Its Energy Portfolio

  Published 21 July 2021 | viewed 1,902 times

  Azerbaijan risks significant economic shocks in the future if it continues to rely heavily on oil and gas as the main pillar of its economy,…

• Georgia Pivots To Wind Despite Booming Hydro Industry

  Published 17 July 2021 | viewed 2,610 times

  Months-long protests against the construction of the $800 million Namakhvani hydropower plant in western Georgia beg a simple question: Why bother with big dams anyway? …

• Azerbaijan Gains Control Of Key Gold Mines

  Published 27 January 2021 | viewed 11,773 times

  Anglo-Asian Mining had been waiting for decades. Since 1997, the company has held the rights, granted by Azerbaijan, to three gold deposits beyond its reach,…

• Turkey’s Latest Pipeline Plan Is A Move To Restore Relations With U.S

  Published 11 June 2020 | viewed 17,129 times

  Turkey's state gas grid operator Bota? has opened a tender for a gas pipeline to supply Azerbaijan’s exclave of Nakhchivan. The new supply route would…

• Oil-Dependent Kazakhstan Faces Recession As Price War Rages On

  Published 02 April 2020 | viewed 12,799 times

  The government in Kazakhstan has, in the light of the unfolding coronavirus pandemic and the concomitant fall in global oil prices, revised its economic projections…

• Azerbaijan Could Soon Tap Its 410 Million Barrel Oil Reserves

  Published 21 March 2020 | viewed 79,645 times

  Azerbaijan says it has proven an oil deposit in the Caspian Sea is commercially viable, offering a small psychological boost as the country’s oil-based economy…

• Azerbaijani Economy At Stake As Oil Prices Plummet

  Published 16 March 2020 | viewed 20,151 times

  Demand for dollars has spiked in Azerbaijan amid fears of another currency devaluation following a plunge in oil prices. A feud between Saudi Arabia and…

• Eurasian Nations Are Betting Big On Renewables

  Published 11 March 2020 | viewed 10,061 times

  In discussions about renewable energy, Azerbaijan is not the first country that springs to mind. As one of the world's top 25 oil and gas…

• Oil Price War Could Wreak Havoc On Eurasian Economies

  Published 10 March 2020 | viewed 25,665 times

  A feud between Saudi Arabia and Russia that sent oil prices plunging on March 9 has rewritten economic forecasts across Eurasia. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia –…

• Why Russia And Ukraine Are Still Making Billion-Dollar Energy Deals

  Published 13 February 2020 | viewed 22,380 times

  The story of Russia turning off the gas to punish Ukraine for some perceived indignity will be familiar to most Eurasianet readers. Somewhat less known…

• Russia’s Mega-Pipeline Is A Major Threat To This Gas Producer

  Published 05 December 2019 | viewed 14,925 times

  Russia’s mega-project to export its gas to China, the Power of Siberia pipeline, came online December 2. By 2024, the pipeline is expected to deliver 38…

• The Oil Nations That Still Haven't Recovered From The 2014 Crash

  Published 13 November 2019 | viewed 8,185 times

  Economic growth in Central Asia and the South Caucasus will remain lackluster in 2020, slowing slightly in most countries, the International Monetary Fund says in its latest…