The building of the Ministry of Finance of Uzbekistan in Tashkent. File photoTASHKENT, Jan 25 Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev instructed the creation of a government commission to investigate the causes of a massive power outage in the republic on Tuesday, the press service of the Ministry of Energy reported. Earlier, the Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan reported that at 9.00 Moscow time in power outages occurred in several regions of the country. Later, the department clarified that a phased restoration of electricity supply had begun. According to the press service of the Kazakhstani electric grid operator KEGOC, an accident in the power supply system that affected a number of Central Asian countries occurred due to an overload of a transit line in Kazakhstan.Uzbekistan's Energy Ministry refutes data on a prolonged power outage»In connection with the situation, on behalf of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, a government commission has been established under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister of the country to investigate the causes of the incident and develop a plan to prevent such situations in the future,» it says in a message on the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Energy. The results of the work of the commission will be officially published, the department added. On Tuesday, massive power outages were recorded in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, presumably due to an accident in the unified energy system of Central Asia. The unified energy system of Central Asia ( IPS CA), created in the Soviet era, is a block of energy systems, which includes the systems of the south of Kazakhstan, as well as Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan. Power outage occurred in several regions of Uzbekistan
