Tajikistan has stopped supplying electricity to Uzbekistan this year due to the onset of cold weather and for the purpose of meeting domestic requirements in electricity, an official source within the Tajik government told Asia-Plus in an interview.
“In accordance with the reached agreements, Tajikistan supplies electricity to Uzbekistan only during the April-October period,” the source said.
According to him, Tajikistan exported some 1.5 billion kWh of electricity to the neighboring country in April-September this year.
Tajikistan restored electricity supplies to Uzbekistan in April last year after a nine-year break. In total, according to the agreements, Tajikistan supplies up to 1.5 billion kWh of electricity to Uzbekistan. 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, the source further added that Tajikistan’s electricity exports to Afghanistan had been reduced to a minimum. The supply of daily electrical power to Afghanistan has reportedly been reduced from average 10 million kWh in August to the current 700,000-800,000 kWh
Tajikistan has sufficient summer-time (defined as May 1 to September 30) hydropower surpluses to export to the neighboring countries.
