Afghanistan now owes 28 million U.S. dollars to Tajikistan for electricity delivery, Barqi Tojik (Tajikistan’s national power utility company) CEO Mahmadumar Asozoda told reporters in Dushanbe on August 1.
According to him, electricity exports continue and no difficulties exist. “The entire necessary infrastructure both in Tajik territory and in Afghan territory is in working order,” Barqi Tojik top manager said.
Cases of suspension of supplies due to problems in the Afghan electricity grid this year have significantly reduced compared to the previous years, he added.
Recall, Barqi Tojik and its Afghan analog, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), signed an updated electricity supply deal worth US$69 million in December for the former to supply 400 megawatt-hours of electricity daily in May-September and 25-30 megawatt-hours of electricity in October-April. DABS pays US$0.0467 per kilowatt-hour of electricity.
According to data from Barqi Tojik, Tajikistan has exported about 734 million kWh of electricity to Afghanistan over the first six months of this year.
If that arrangement is executed as agreed, Tajikistan will provide Afghanistan with 1.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2022. That is more than the 1.2 billion kilowatt-hours that Dushanbe says it delivered last year.
Over the same six-month period, Tajikistan has also supplied electricity to neighboring Uzbekistan.
In all, Tajikistan’s electricity exports over the reporting period have amounted to about 1.6 billion kWh.
Tajikistan has sufficient summer-time (defined as May 1 to September 30) hydropower surpluses to export to the neighboring countries.
