DUSHANBE, September 16, 2014, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan monthly
Monitoring and Early Warning (MEW) Report
notes that according to the information of Barqi Tojik (national integrated power company of Tajikistan), total electricity generation in August 2014 was 1.527 billion kilowatt-hours (kW/h), or 49.3 million kW/h per day. Electricity generation in August decreased by 1.6 percent (50.1 million kW/h) compared to July 2014.
Electricity generation in August 2014 was 18 million kW/h less compared to the same period of the last year. This is reportedly due to a reduction of electricity consumption of the Tajik Aluminum Company (TALCO).
Meanwhile, total electricity consumption in August 2014 reached 1.288 billion kW/h, which is 3.7% less compared to July 2014. In August 2014 electricity consumption was 90 million kW/h less than in August 2013. In August 2014 the 220 kW and 110 kW networks from Sangtuda-1 and Sangtuda-2 hydroelectric power plants transmitted 188.4 million kW/h of electricity to Afghanistan, 29.2 million kW/h more than in the same period of the previous year and 12.3% of the total amount of electricity generated in Tajikistan.
At the end of August 2014, the water level in the reservoir powering the Norak HPP was 910.54 m above sea level, which is 16.16 meters higher compared to July 2014, 0.15 meter higher than the same period in the previous year, and 53.54 m above the “dead level (inactive storage) (857 m).
The average water discharge from the Norak HPP reservoir at the end of August 2014 reportedly amounted to 980 m3/s, which is higher than the 9-year-old average of 1093.8 m3/s.
The aim of the Tajikistan monthly
Monitoring and Early Warning (MEW) Reports
is to provide regular information and succinct analysis on the evolution of natural, economic, food, energy and other risk factors in Tajikistan. Data and information in this report are provided by different sources and compiled by Group of Experts of Government organizations and institutions of the MEW Center (MEWS) under the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT) of Tajikistan with the support of UNDP and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Tajikistan. MEWS at MEDT was created in conjunction with the United Nations Development Program in Tajikistan in 2010.
