02.05.2019
Over 11 million kWh of electricity is exported daily by Tajikistan to neighboring countries.
As reported by "Avesta" in the relevant energy departments of the republic, most of the supply falls to neighboring Uzbekistan. For example, yesterday 6.2 million kWh of electricity was supplied to this country. This figure with Afghanistan is 4.5 million kWh. Also 400 thousand kWh of electricity was exported to Kyrgyzstan.
According to the source, currently 53-55 million kWh of electricity is produced daily, depending on weather conditions and demand. Earlier it was reported that Tajikistan plans to increase electricity exports to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan this year. At the beginning of this year, Barki Tochik said that at the peak of electricity production (spring-summer season), the republic could offer Afghanistan and Uzbekistan more electricity than was supplied last year.
The Tajik power engineers claim that this year there was plenty of snow in the highlands of the republic, in addition, the new energy capacities allow to increase electricity production in the spring-summer period.
According to the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources, in 2018 more than 2.4 billion kWh of electricity was exported outside the country. Due to these supplies, the republic earned about $ 77 million.
Note that the cost of each kilowatt of energy for Afghanistan last year was 4.11 cents, and for Uzbekistan 2 cents.
