DUSHANBE
, June 9, Asia-Plus —
Tajikistan
has supplies electrical power to
Afghanistan
since mid-May.
Tajikistan
plans to export some 50 million kWh of electricity to the neighboring country during summer months,
Asia
-Plus has learned at Barqi Tojik (Tajik electric systems) power holding.
Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, Rashid Gulov, an engineer-in-chief with Barqi Tojik, said that
Tajikistan
currently supplies electricity to
Afghanistan
at the rate of some 200,000 kWh per day.
According to him, Tajik electricity is still supplied to
Afghanistan
only during spring-summer period (May-October).
“This year we plan to export some 50 million kWh of electrical power to
Afghanistan
,” said the engineer-in-chief.
“Last year, we exported 51 million kWh of electricity to
Afghanistan
.”
Asked about electricity supplies to
Kyrgyzstan
and
Uzbekistan
during summer months, Gulov said that
Tajikistan
currently supplies to only to
Uzbekistan
.
According to him,
Tajikistan
’s electricity debts to
Kyrgyzstan
are inconsiderable.
Tajikistan
has to export 55 million kWh of electricity to
Kyrgyzstan
in exchange of 11 million kWh of Kyrgyz electricity received during winter months.
As far as electricity supplies to
Uzbekistan
are concerned, in accordance with the government-to-government agreement between the two countries,
Uzbekistan
should supplies some 600 million kWh of electricity to
Tajikistan
during the autumn-winter period and in exchange for that,
Tajikistan
should supply 900 million kWh of electrical power to
Uzbekistan
during spring-summer period.
We will recall that
Tajikistan
has been supplying electricity to
Uzbekistan
since late May and 58.2 million kWh of electrical power have been transmitted to
Uzbekistan
by June 6.
A statement released by Barqi Tojik said that during this past autumn-winter period,
Tajikistan
has received 492 million kWh of electricity from
Uzbekistan
instead of the planned 600 million kWh, and the remaining 108 million kWh will be supplied to
Tajikistan
in the upcoming winter.
Tajikistan
currently generates some 60 million kWh of electrical power per day, according to the source.
