DUSHANBE, April 7, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan has resumed electricity supplies to neighboring Afghanistan.
According to Barqi Tojik (Tajik electric systems) power holding, Tajikistan currently supplies electrical power to Afghanistan at the rate of up to 10,000 kWh per day. “This amount of electricity is enough for providing with electricity only several multi-storey residential buildings,” said the source at Barqi Tojik, “We supply electricity to Afghan provinces bordering on Tajikistan for twenty hour per days from 21:00 to 17:00 of the next day.”
The source further added that Tajik hydropower plants now generate 26 million kWh of electricity per day. Besides, Tajikistan daily receives 11.9 million kWh of Turkmen and 8.1 million kWh of Uzbek electricity.
On the rate of the water flow into the reservoir powering the Norak hydroelectric power station (HPS), the Barqi Tojik source said that it currently stands at 260 cubic meters per second.
Electricity rationing introduced in the provinces has not yet been lifted, according to him.
