DUSHANBE, October 27, 2010, Asia-Plus — Construction of the 220 kV Tajikistan-Afghanistan power transmission line on the territory of Tajikistan has been finished, according to the Ministry of Energy and Industries (MoEI).
Tajik side has applied to Afghan colleagues, asking them to speed up the construction of the line from Tajik border to Puli Khumri, the administrative center of Afghan Baghlan province, the source said.
“The construction of the power transmission line on Afghan territory is expected to be finished in March 2011 and Tajikistan will be able to supply electric power to Afghanistan via this line in May 2011,” the source said.
We will recall that the Tajikistan-Afghanistan 220 kV interconnection project was supposed to be fully completed in November this year.
A total cost of the project is 56.5 million U.S. dollars and it is financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, and the governments of Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
On the territory of Tajikistan, the line starts in the Sanguda-1 hydroelectric plant and ends on the Tajik-Afghan border. The 220 kV Tajikistan-Afghanistan power transition line is 278 kilometers long, and 116 kilometers of it lies on Tajik territory and 162 kilometers on Afghan territory.
