Annual increase in energy consumption is recorded in Dagestan, the head of the regional Energy Ministry Marat Shikhaliyev says. According to the official, the growth of energy consumption for the last 3 years amounted to 25%.

At the same time, the Minister admitted that all available power generation facilities cover only half of the republic's needs. According to results of the first quarter of the current year, the power plants of the Republic produced 1 billion 110 million kWh of energy, which is 84 million kWh more than last year's indices.

In order to reduce the capacity deficit, it is planned to build a new solar and wind power plants in the republic, as well as to increase the capacity of hydroelectric generators at the existing hydroelectric power plants ruled by RusHydro JSC.