DUSHANBE, May 8, 2015, Asia-Plus — Kyrgyzstan reportedly hopes to solve the problem of electricity imports from Tajikistan at the second round of negotiations with Tajik power holding.
“The first round of negotiations with Tajikistan [on electricity deliveries] has already been held but we have failed to reached an agreement on price for Tajik electricity. We plan to solve this problem during the second round of the negotiations,” Kyrgyz Minister of Energy and Industry Kubanychbek Turdubayev told reporters in Bishkek on May 7.
We will recall that the first round of negotiations between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan on electricity deliveries to Kyrgyzstan during summer period was held last month and Tajikistan refused to supply surplus electricity to Kyrgyzstan during summer period at last year’s prices.
“Negotiations on electricity supplies for this year have been conducted in Dushanbe but the sides have failed to agree on electricity prices,” Nozir Yodgori, a spokesman for Barqi Tojik (Tajik electricity supplier), told Asia-Plus in an interview.
According to him, Tajikistan is ready to supply surplus electricity to the neighboring country during the summer period at the rate of 3.5 cents per 1 kWh while Kyrgyzstan wants to buy Tajik electricity at the rate of 2.0 cents per 1 kWh.
“Barqi Tojik considers the price offered by the Kyrgyz side unacceptable because this price does not cover even Barqi Tojik’s expenses,” Yodgori said, adding that Kyrgyzstan is currently studying the price offered by Tajikistan.
In 2014, Tajikistan supplied 226.7 million kWh of electricity to Kyrgyzstan during the summer period at the rate of 2.0 cents per 1 kWh.
In Tajikistan, current prices of one kilowatt-hour electricity are 12.6 dirams for residential customers and 30.6 dirams for industrial and non-industrial enterprises. The average price of one kWh of electricity in Tajikistan is 2.2 cents.
Meanwhile, the northern regions of Kyrgyzstan now receive electricity during the summer period from neighboring Kazakhstan at the rate of 7.0 cents per one kWh.
