Compared to 2017, Tajikistan’s electricity exports last year increased by 44 percent, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan.
In 2018, Tajikistan reportedly earned 77 million somoni (equivalent to some 8.2 million U.S. dollars) from exporting surplus electricity to neighboring countries.
In 2017, Tajikistan exported little more than 53.4 million somoni worth of electricity to Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan.
According to the statistical data from the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources (MoEWR), Tajikistan last year exported more than 2.4 billion kWh of electricity, which was 1.1 billion kWh more than in 2017.
In 2018, electricity exports reportedly accounted for 12.1 percent of the overall volume of electricity generated in the country in the same period.
Last year, Tajikistan generated more than 19.7 billion kWh of electricity.
According to an agreement reached between the two countries, in summer period, Tajikistan supplies electricity to Uzbekistan at the rate of 2 cents per one kWh of electricity, and in winter period, the price for one kWh of Tajik electricity being supplied to Uzbekistan is 2.5 cents.
Recall, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan take the next step in resurrecting the Central Asian unified power grid after months of diplomacy.
Tajikistan began supplying Uzbekistan with electricity in early April last year. The energy trade across the Tajik-Uzbek border has resumed after a nine-year interruption. Specifically, Tajikistan has begun supplying Uzbekistan with electricity via a power line running from the Regar substation, near the city of Tursunzoda west of Dushanbe, to the Gulcha substation across the border in Uzbekistan.
Meanwhile, Tajikistan supplies electric power to the neighboring Afghanistan at the rate of 4.11 cents per kWh.
Tajikistan has sufficient summer-time (defined as May 1 to September 30) hydropower surpluses to export to the neighboring countries.
