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8 February 2023

CENTRAL ASIA BLOG: Taliban’s lousy power deals exposed as Uzbekistan pulls plug in deadly cold

3 February 2023

Partly thanks to infrastructure projects blown up by the militants while they were trying to turf out the US, Afghanistan is dependent on neighbours for 73% of its electricity.

Japan commissions first large offshore wind project

1 February 2023

On January 31, Japan fully commissioned a 55-MW offshore wind project, the first large one in the country. It is fixed-bottom – the foundations are on the sea-bed – in shallow waters in the Sea of Japan.