Last year, Tajikistan earned 106 million U.S. dollars (USD) exporting electricity to neighboring countries, which is 10.6 percent more than in 2021, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan.
In 2022, electric power reportedly accounted for 5.0 percent of Tajikistan’s exports, which is 0.5 percent more compared to 2021.
Tajikistan now supplies electricity to Uzbekistan and northern provinces of Afghanistan within the framework of contracts concluded with power utility companies of these countries.
We failed to get information about the cost of Tajik electricity for Afghan consumers in 2022. However, Barqi Tojik (Tajikistan’s national power utility company) had noted earlier that in 2021, Tajikistan supplied electricity to Afghanistan at rate of 3.0 cents for electric power supplied through 110kV power transmission lines and at the rate of 4.5 cents for electric power supplied through 220kV power transmission lines.
Barqi Tojik and its Afghan analog, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), signed an updated electricity supply deal worth US$69 million December 2021 on the supply of 400 megawatt-hours of electricity daily in spring-winter period (May-August) and 25-30 megawatt-hours of electricity daily in autumn-winter period (September-April) in 2022.
DABS noted in mid-January this year that an additional protocol on the supply of Tajik electricity to Afghanistan in 2023 was signed in Istanbul. The report does not provide the terms of the agreement.
As fa as Uzbekistan is concerned, Tajikistan supplies electric power to this country at the rate of 2.00 cents per 1 kWh only during spring-supper period (May-August).
The low price for electricity supplied to Uzbekistan is due to the fact that Tajikistan, in turn, receives natural gas from Uzbekistan at a reduced price.
Tajikistan has sufficient summer-time (defined as May 1 to September 30) hydropower surpluses to export to the neighboring countries.
According to data from the Agency for Statistics, Tajikistan last year generated about 21.4 billion kWh of electricity, which is 3.8 percent more than in 2021.
