Tajikistan has increases electricity deliveries to Afghanistan. Meanwhile, many Tajik rural areas have had electricity only eighteen hours per day.
Compared to December last year, Tajikistan in January this year increased electricity deliveries to Afghanistan by almost 20 percent.
Meanwhile, Tajik authorities noted in early February that currently, minimum electricity is going from Tajikistan only to Afghanistan in order keep the power transmission lines connected.
According to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan, Tajikistan supplied US$4.014 million worth of electricity to neighboring countries in January, which is US$676,000 more than in December last year.
In December last year, Tajikistan reportedly exported US$3.338 million worth of electrical power to the neighboring countries.
Tajikistan is currently supplying electricity only to Afghanistan, while electricity deliveries to Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have been suspended, the Minister of Energy and Water Resources Daler Juma told reporters in Dushanbe on February 1.
Meanwhile, compared to January last year, Tajik electricity exports in January this year more than doubled.
Tajikistan supplies electrical power to Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan.
Compared to 2019, the country’s electricity exports last year reduced by 48 percent.
Tajikistan has sufficient summer-time (defined as May 1 to September 30) hydropower surpluses to export to the neighboring countries. In accordance with the agreement concluded with the neighboring, Tajikistan supplies electricity to the neighboring countries only during the April-October period.
Recall, the Tajik government introduced the electricity rationing in rural areas on January 5. The power rationing was introduced in connection with a decline in the water level in the reservoir powering the Nurek hydroelectric power plant (HPP). Residential customers in rural areas now have electricity eighteen hours per day – from 5:00 am to 11:00 pm. Electricity rationing has not affected Dushanbe, regional administrative centers and large cities.
