DUSHANBE, August 23, 2012, Asia-Plus — Two additional boiler houses are expected to be introduced into operation in Dushanbe this year that will give an opportunity to supply heating and hot water to people’s homes in winter period.
Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev remarked this today at a meeting with Dushanbe residents.
According to him, Barqi Tojik power holding (the state-owned utility responsible for generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in Tajikistan), which now owes several million somoni to the Dushanbe mayor’s office, must finance the introduction of those boiler houses into operation.
“We cannot now demand the repayment of the debt, because the power holding must repay its debts to OJSC Sangtudinskaya GES-1, which operates the Sangtuda-1 hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in Tajikistan,” said the mayor. “Barqi Tojik, however, promised to introduce two boiler houses into operation in the city, but I do not believe that this will happen until the end of the year; little time remains to introduce the boiler houses into operation, while nothing has been done in this direction so far.”
The mayor stressed that the mentioned boiler houses would operate on artificial composite liquid fuel. “It means that we will make the artificial composite fuel from coal,” Ubaidulloyev noted.
