In February, Tajikistan earned 2.286 million U.S. dollars from exporting electric power to neighboring countries, which is 21.3 percent or 620,000 U.S. dollars less than in January, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan.
Over the first two months of this year, Tajikistan’s electricity export earnings have amounted to 5.2 million U.S. dollars.
Over the same two-month period last year, Tajikistan reportedly earned more than 7 million U.S. dollars from electricity exports.
Top managers of Barqi Tojik (Tajikistan’s national power utility company) had earlier repeatedly stated that in autumn-winter period, Tajikistan supplies electricity only to Afghanistan in small volumes just for the safety of infrastructure (power transmission lines, substations and transformers).
“During autumn-winter period, Tajikistan supplies electricity to Afghanistan at the rate of 25-30 MW per day that does not affect the overall balance of energy supply in the country,” Barqi Tojik says in its latest statement.
This year, Tajikistan is expected to supply 1.4 billion kWh of electricity to Uzbekistan at the rate of 2.0 cents per 1 kWh. As far as the low rate is concerned, the price for electricity supplied to Uzbekistan is reportedly tied to the price of natural gas supplied by Uzbekistan to Tajikistan for the Dushanbe natural gas powered combined heat and power (CHP) plant.
Besides, Tajikistan is expected to supply 1.5 billion kWh of electricity to Afghanistan at the rate of 4.65 cents per 1 kWh.
Tajikistan now supplies electricity to Uzbekistan and northeast provinces of Afghanistan within the framework of contracts concluded with power utility companies of these countries.
Tajikistan has sufficient summer-time (defined as May 1 to September 30) hydropower surpluses to export to the neighboring countries.
Over the first two months of this year, Tajikistan has generated about 3.8 billion kWh of electricity , which is 9.8 percent more than in the same period last year.
