Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are currently conducting negotiations on supplying Tajik hydropower surpluses to Uzbekistan during spring-summer period. Tajikistan is expected to raise electricity price for Uzbekistan.
“Negotiations on supplying Tajik hydropower surpluses to Uzbekistan are under way. All existing issues are expected to be resolved at the next meeting of the delegations of the two countries and an appropriate agreement will be signed,” Madumar Asozoda, the deputy head of Barqi Tojik (Tajikistan’s national integrated power company) told reporters in Dushanbe on February 13.
According to him, the delegations are discussing electricity price for Uzbekistan for this year.
Barqi Tojik head Mirzo Ismoilzoda stressed that Tajikistan this year offers its electricity to Uzbekistan at higher price than last year.
Tajikistan last year supplied electricity to Uzbekistan at the rate of 2 cents per one kwh.
At the same time, an average price for one kWh of electricity in Tajikistan last year stood at 17 diram (equivalent to 1.8 cents), while the electricity production cost in Tajikistan is 16 diram (equivalent to 1.7 cents).
“This year, Tajikistan plans to supply 1.6 billion kWh of electricity to Uzbekistan, which is nearly 200 million kWh more than last year,” Asozoda said.
According to data from Barqi Tojik, Tajikistan last year exported 1.48 billion Kwh of electricity to the neighboring country.
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.
Tajikistan has sufficient summer-time (defined as May 1 to September 30) hydropower surpluses to export to the neighboring countries.
