The TA project aimed at increasing or maintaining access to electricity in CAREC Program's five member countries, such as Afghanistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, and Tajikistan, by designing a plug-and-play solar power kit, including solar panels, lithium-ion. The TA project aimed at increasing or maintaining access to electricity in CAREC Program's five member countries, such as Afghanistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, and Tajikistan, by designing a plug-and-play solar power kit, including solar panels, lithium-ion. Should the model include the short-term forecast of power-sector capacity expansion in the 2022 study Concept for Development of the Unified Energy System in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, published by the Energy Coordinating Dispatch Centre and Almaty University of Energy and Communications? Others. The TA project supported the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program's strategy of promoting new off-grid energy technologies. The co-authors of this report are: Ms. Nadejda. In the winter across much of Central Asia, people will frequently lose power—sometimes for minutes, sometimes hours. Whether caused by electricity rationing or system overload, these outages interrupt daily life: work stops, businesses close, and children read by candlelight.