Tajikistan is expected to raise electricity rates beginning on November 1 this year.
By government’s decree of October 1 the antimonopoly agency and Barqi Tojik (Tajikistan’s national integrated power company) are ordered to jointly introduce changes to the electricity price list.
The government, in particular, decrees to set new electricity rates for all categories of consumers, except the Tajik Aluminum Company (TALCO).
New prices are expected to be 14.65 dirams for residential customers (16.2 percent increase compared to the current price of 1 kWh of electricity for residential customers), 7.20 dirams in May-September and 11.80 dirams in October-April for TALCO, 2.20 dirams in April-September and 8.20 dirams in October-March for pumping stations for mechanized irrigation and repair-and-production bases of the Agency for Land Reclamation and Irrigation under the Government of Tajikistan, and 2.20 dirams for vertical drainage wells and land reclamation pumping stations.
Meanwhile, Barqi Tojik neither confirmed nor denied the upcoming rise in electricity rates.
For the last time, Tajikistan raised electricity rates on July 1, 2014.
