DUSHANBE, March 4, Asia-Plus — Since March 1, electricity supplies to Tajik Aluminum Company or TALCO (formerly Tajik Aluminum Plant or TadAZ) have been increasing, and TALCO yesterday received 17.75 million kWh of electricity, Asia-Plus has learned at Barqi Tojik (Tajik electric systems) power holding.
Before that, the Tajik aluminum smelter had been receiving 16 million kWh of electrical power daily. “We are gradually increasing electricity supplies to the aluminum group and in the near future, TALCO will receive electricity supplies at the rate of 21 million kWh per day,” the source at Barqi Tojik said.
We will recall that speaking to his cabinet on January 16, President Rahmon ordered to reduce electricity supplies to the aluminum smelter by 1 million kWh in order to increase the supply of daily electrical power to Dushanbe.
The Barqi Tojik top manager Sharifkhon Samiyev announced on January 22 that electricity supplies to TALCO were reduced by another 2 million kWh. Thereby electricity supplies to the aluminum smelter were reduced by 20 percent.
The Barqi Tojik source added that Tajik hydropower plants generated 20 million kWh of electrical power yesterday. In addition, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan supplied 20.4 million kWh of electricity to the country – 10 million kWh of electricity were supplied by Turkmenistan and 10.4 million kWh by Uzbekistan.
