DUSHANBE, February 6, Asia-Plus — Turkmenistan has increased the volume of daily electricity it exports to Tajikistan from 3-3.5 million kWh to 6.6 million kWh, Asia-Plus has learned at Barqi Tojik (Tajik electric systems) power holding.
The source at Barqi Tojik noted that it cannot be ruled that with warmer temperatures’ coming electricity supplies will be increased even more.
Central Asia has for several weeks been experiencing unusually cold weather that has increased domestic electricity consumption across the region and led to widespread power outages across Tajikistan.
We will recall that President Emomali Rahmon telephoned his Turkmen counterpart, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov on January 28 to ask that Turkmenistan increase the volume of electricity it currently exports to Tajikistan. Turkmen president reportedly agreed to do so within realms of the possible.
Turkmenistan is supposed to supply totaling 1.2 billion kWh of electricity to Tajikistan in autumn-winter 2007-2008.
Barqi Tojik says Uzbekistan currently supplies electricity to Tajikistan at the rate of 2.2 million kWh per day. Uzbekistan is expected to export 600 million kWh of electricity this autumn-winter period.
Kyrgyzstan now exports electricity to northern Tajikistan at the rate of 500,000 kWh per day. Kyrgyz electricity is primarily supplied to the towns of Konibodom and Isfara. Electricity supplies from Kyrgyzstan are expected to total 11 million kWh.
In the meantime, Tajikistan’s largest hydroelectric power station (HPS) Norak currently generates little more than 40 million kWh of electrical power per day.
