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Listed below are the procedures, time and cost required for a business to obtain an electricity connection for a newly constructed building.

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  • Name of Utility: Alatau Zharyk
  • City: Almaty

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No. Procedure Time to Complete Associated Costs
1 Submit an application to Almaty Urban Planning and Architecture Department for an electricity connection and await technical conditions

The customer submits an application for the electricity connection/technical conditions to Almaty Urban Planning and Architecture Department and awaits issuance of technical conditions. The technical conditions for electricity are received together with technical conditions from other utilities (water, gas, etc.).

With the application the customer must submit the following documents: Application for technical conditions, Documents on property rights, identification documents, calculation of the required load, topographic map/survey. The specifications in technical conditions among other things define the capacity of the existing electricity facilities in the geographic location where the customer's warehouse is located and specify which substation or which point in the network is allocated for the customer.

Agency: Almaty Urban Planning and Architecture Department 		14 calendar days no charge
2 Await completion and coordination of the electrical project design by a private electrical design firm and its approval


After the technical conditions are issued the customer hires a private project design company to prepare a project design of the external connection and if not available at this point a topographic plan of the location of the warehouse. The same company on behalf of the customer obtains an approval of the project at multiple organizations. The time recorded for this procedure includes time for the preparation of the project and its coordination/approval.



Agency: Private electrical design company 		26 calendar days KZT 255,000.0
3 Obtain an excavation permit at the Directorate of the State Architecture and Construction Control

The excavation permit is obtained by the electrical contractor.

Agency: State Architecture and Construction Control Department 		7 calendar days no charge
4 Await completion of the external connection works by an electrical contractor

After the electrical design is prepared specially licensed electrical installation company is hired to complete the external connection works.

The meter is installed by the same electrical contractor.
After the external connection works are over all the installations and the cable have to be tested. The private company carrying out the external connection works has to issue a certificate of completion of works and clear a number of various technical documents (about 28) with various agencies.


Agency: Licensed Electrical Installation Company 		27 calendar days KZT 750,000.0
5 Await and obtain an insepection of the external connection works by Alatau Zharyk and other members of the acceptance committee

The electrical contractor on behalf of the customer submits a written request for the inspection of the completed external connection works. The works must be approved by an acceptance committee (members of the committee include: Alatau Zharyk, Committee on State Energy Supervision, Customer, electrical contractor).

Agency: Committee on State Energy Supervision 		7 calendar days no charge
6 Conclude a supply contract and await for the meter to be sealed by Alatau Zharyk

A supply contract can be concluded at any stage of the process after the technical conditions are issued and before electricity can start flowing. Once the electrical installation is cleared during the inspection, Alatau Zharyk visits the site to seal the meter and to turn on the power.

Agency: Alatau Zharyk 		7 calendar days no charge
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