Over the first three months of this year, Tajikistan has exported about US$7.2 million worth of electricity, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan.
Tajikistan’s electricity exports were reportedly estimated at more than US$2.4 million in January, about US$2.8 million in February, and about US$2.0 million in March.
Over the first quarter of this year, electricity’s share in Tajikistan’s exports has reportedly amounted to 4.5 percent.
This year, Tajikistan reportedly exports electric power only to Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. Barqi Tojik (Tajikistan’s electricity generation company) claims that Tajikistan exports electricity to neighboring Uzbekistan only during the spring-summer period and electricity exports to Afghanistan’s northern provinces continue in autumn-winter period as well “but in small quantities solely to preserve the infrastructure.”
Tajikistan has sufficient summer-time (defined as May 1 to September 30) hydropower surpluses to export to the neighboring countries.
It is to be noted that power rationing introduced in the country’s rural areas on September 26, 2023 is still in effect. The supply of electricity in rural areas has increased from10 to 16 hours. Tajikistan’s rural areas accept lengthy power outages as a routine.
Measures rationing electricity supplies are usually introduced in all regions of the country and they seek to curb the country's rising electricity consumption. The rationing results in the supply of daily electrical power being reduced to 10 or 12 hours. In addition to curbing rising consumption, the move also stems from a decline in the water level in the country's reservoirs powering the main hydroelectric power plants.
Power rationing affects rural areas of the country and it does affect Dushanbe, regional administrative centers and large cities. Residential customers in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), where Pamir Energy Company supplies electricity to consumers, also have an uninterrupted supply of electricity during the autumn-winter period.
