DUSHANBE, July 24, 2014, Asia-Plus — Over the first six months of this year, Tajikistan has exported nearly 497 million kWh of electricity, which is 135 million kWh more than in the same period last year, Minister of Energy and Water Resources Usmonali Usmonzoda announced at a news conference in Dushanbe on July 23.
According to him, recipients of Tajik electricity over the report period were Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. Tajikistan reportedly supplies electricity to Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan only during spring-summer period.
“To-date, Tajikistan has supplied some 414 million kWh of electricity to Afghanistan and more than 82 million kWh of electricity to Kyrgyzstan,” the minister noted.
Currently, Tajikistan is supplying 5.5 million kWh of electricity per day to Afghanistan at 3.7 cents per one KWh and 1.5 million kWh of electricity to Kyrgyzstan at 2.0 cents per one kWh.
In summer, an average rate of idle discharge of water from reservoirs of power plants of Vakhsh Cascade is equivalent to 3 billion kWh of electricity, Usmonzoda noted.
The minister further added that Tajik power plants have generated more than 8.1 billion kWh of electricity over the first six months of this year.
