Over the first six months of this year, Tajikistan has exported US$37.3 million worth of electricity, which is US$5.9 million or 5.0 percent more than in the same period last year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the Government of Tajikistan.
Over the reporting period, Tajikistan has exported more than 917 million kWh of electricity, which is 9.1 percent of the overall volume of electricity generated in the country in January-June, 2021.
Over the same six-month period, Tajikistan has reportedly generated little more than 10 billion kWh of electricity, which is 1.7 percent fewer than in the same period last year.
Tajikistan now exports electricity to Uzbekistan and northern provinces of Afghanistan, despite the fact that the Taliban captured most of Afghanistan’s north.
At the beginning of this year, the power companies of Tajikistan and Afghanistan signed an agreement on the supply of about 1.5 billion kWh of electricity from Tajikistan to Afghanistan in 2021.
Over the first six months of this year, electricity has reportedly accounted for 65 percent of Tajikistan’s exports to Afghanistan.
Tajikistan supplies electricity to Afghanistan at the rate of 3.0 cents per 1 kWh through the 110 kV power transmission line and at the rate of 4.5 cents per 1 kWh through the 220 kV power transmission line.
In accordance with the reached agreements, Tajikistan reportedly supplies electricity to neighboring countries (Afghanistan and Uzbekistan) only during the April-October period.
Tajikistan has sufficient summer-time (defined as May 1 to September 30) hydropower surpluses to export to the neighboring countries.
Recall, Tajikistan last year exported more than US$56.4 million worth of electricity, which was 40 percent fewer than in 2019. This was due to an acute shortage of electricity in the country itself due to low water.
