however the installation of these additional electricity meters and transitioning from the existing electricity billing system to a modem multifunctional billing system faced some delays about per cent of the country s population lives in remote mountainous offgrid areas in valleys with small rivers and streams where offgrid renewable energy solutions make more economic sense to date no comprehensive study has been carried out to assess the potential of res in the country the strongest winds are observed in mountainous areas where the landscape produces the country s maximum wind speed and flows as well as in sughd oblast and the rasht valley