DUSHANBE, October 31, 2013, Asia-Plus — The daily generation of electricity in Tajikistan has reportedly been 45.471 million kWh in recent days, which is 4 million kWh more than in mid-October.
“Average daily consumption of electricity is currently little more than 42 million kWh while the remaining 968,000 kWh are supplied to southern Kyrgyzstan in exchange for Kyrgyz electricity supplied to northern Tajikistan,” an official source at the Ministry of Energy and Industry (MoEI) told Asia-Plus in an interview.
Meanwhile, Tajikistan has topped electricity deliveries to Afghanistan this week. Electricity supplies to Afghanistan are stopped until spring next year.
In mid-October, Tajikistan’s daily supply of electricity to Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan was 1.480 million kWh, including 1.312 million kWh of electricity supplied to Afghanistan.
Today, 34.176 million kWh of electricity of the total volume of the daily generation of electricity is delivered to the southern part of the country. Tajik aluminum smelter receives 11.558 million kWh of electricity from this volume, the source said.
The northern Sughd province now receives 8.327 million kWh of electricity per day.
In the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), Tajikistan’s only private power company, Pamir Energy Company (Pamir Energy), operates. This company is responsible for electricity deliveries in the region and many districts in Gorno Badakhshan now have regular power supply.
Current water level in the reservoir powering the Norak hydroelectric power plant (HPP) is 909 meters above sea level.
Current inflow of the Vakhsh River is reportedly 286 cubic meters per second, which is 194 cubic meters less than in mid-October.
“In November-December, the electricity generation is expected to increase due to introducing the first unit of the Dushanbe-2 combined heat and power (CHP) plant and the second unit of the Sangtuda-2 HPP into operation,” said the source. “This year electricity rationing will probably be more sparing than in the previous years, but the late autumn and the middle of winter of winter will be cold, and therefore, we have to save electricity already today.”
We will recall that electricity rationing has been introduced in rural areas of Tajikistan. The rationing, which went into effect on October 26, resulted in the supply of daily electrical power in rural areas being reduced to eighteen hours – from 11:00 pm to 5:00 am. Measures rationing electricity supplies are usually introduced in all regions except Dushanbe and seek to curb the country”s rising electricity consumption. The rationing is introduced in October or November and lasts through March or April next year. The rationing results in the supply of daily electrical power being reduced to 12 or 10 hours. In addition to curbing rising consumption, the move also stems from a decline in the water level in the country”s reservoirs powering the main hydroelectric power plants.
