Tashkent, Sept. 15 -- The Uzbekistan government will channel $ 1.2 billion to modernize national electricity and gas grid. 'The effectiveness can be ensured not only just by installing meters, but an integral online system, covering each link, from producers to end-users must be created', President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said during the special video conference, dedicated to automated control and metering of electricity and natural gas.

The essential utilities, consumed by everyone and every organization, gas and electricity infrastructure have not been modernized for many years. The urgent need to optimize the grids requires an introduction of automated systems.

In 7 districts and cities where an automated system for monitoring and meterin...