Over the first seven months of this year, Tajikistan has exported more than US$55 million worth of electricity, which was 25 percent more than in the same period last year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan.
In January-July last year, Tajikistan reportedly supplied more than US$44 million worth of electric power to neighboring countries.
In July this year, Tajikistan exported about US$18 million worth of electricity, which is one third of a total amount of electricity exported by the country over the first seven months of this year.
Tajikistan now supplies electricity to Uzbekistan and northern provinces of Afghanistan, despite the fact that the Taliban captured most of Afghanistan’s north.
At the beginning of this year, the power companies of Tajikistan and Afghanistan signed an agreement on the supply of about 1.5 billion kWh of electricity from Tajikistan to Afghanistan in 2021.
Tajikistan supplies electricity to Afghanistan at the rate of 3.0 cents per 1 kWh through the 110 kV power transmission line and at the rate of 4.5 cents per 1 kWh through the 220 kV power transmission line.
Over the first six months of this year, electricity has reportedly accounted for 65 percent of Tajikistan’s exports to Afghanistan.
In accordance with the reached agreements, Tajikistan reportedly supplies electricity to neighboring countries (Afghanistan and Uzbekistan) only during the April-October period.
Tajikistan has sufficient summer-time (defined as May 1 to September 30) hydropower surpluses to export to the neighboring countries.
In January-July this year, Tajikistan has generated more than 12.1 billion kWh of electricity, which is 0.8 percent more than in the same period last year.
Recall, Tajikistan last year exported more than US$56.4 million worth of electricity, which was 40 percent fewer than in 2019. This was due to an acute shortage of electricity in the country itself due to low water.
