Over the first two months of this year, Tajikistan has earned little more than 3.7 million U.S. dollars from supplying electricity to neighboring countries, which was 52.6 percent less than in the same period last year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan.
In January-February last year, Tajikistan reportedly supplied more than 7.8 million U.S. dollars worth of electricity to neighboring countries.
Tajikistan now supplies surplus electricity to Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.
According to data from Barqi Tojik (Tajikistan’s national integrated power company), Tajikistan last year exported 1.458.2 billion kWh of electricity to Afghanistan and 1.425.1 billion kWh of electricity to Uzbekistan.
In 2019, Tajikistan reportedly exported electricity to Afghanistan at the rate of 4.3 cents per kWh and at the rate of 2.0 cents per kWh to Uzbekistan.
This year, Barqi Tojik plans to supply about 70 million U.S. dollars’ worth of 1.588 billion kWh of electricity to Afghanistan.
In accordance with an agreement reached between power companies of the two countries, the price for Tajik electricity supplied to Afghanistan will rise 3.0 percent annually.
Meanwhile, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have not yet reached an agreement on the delivery of Tajik electricity to Uzbekistan.
The two countries are expected to sign a contract on the delivery of Tajik electricity to Uzbekistan at the next meeting of the Tajikistan-Uzbekistan commission for trade and economic cooperation scheduled for the end of April.
Recall, Tajikistan restored electricity supplies to Uzbekistan in April 2018 after a nine-year break. Specifically, Tajikistan has begun supplying Uzbekistan with electricity via a power line running from the Regar substation, near the city of Tursunzoda west of Dushanbe, to the Gulcha substation across the border in Uzbekistan.
Tajikistan has sufficient summer-time (defined as May 1 to September 30) hydropower surpluses to export to the neighboring countries.
