05.09.22
Turkmenistan plans to increase the volume of electricity supplies to foreign countries to 9 billion kilowatt-hours in 2022. This was stated by Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty Milli Gengesh Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at a meeting with students and teachers of the State Energy Institute of Turkmenistan in Mary, the Neitralnyi Turkmenistan newspaper reported on September 5.
"Currently, Turkmen electric energy, in addition to Afghanistan, is exported to Iran, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. This year, it is planned to increase the volume of supplies to 9 billion kilowatt-hours. This indicator is 3.3 times higher than in 2013," Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said.
He noted that today there are 12 power plants with a capacity of 6943.2 megawatts operating in Turkmenistan, where 51 turbine units are installed, of which 39 are gas turbines, 12 are steam turbines.
According to Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the commissioning of a new combined cycle power plant in Mary in September 2018 allowed an increase of 3 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity sent abroad.
The head of the Chamber of the Halk Maslahaty of the National Parliament noted that the surplus electricity generated at the Dashoguz state power plant is exported to the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov also recalled that on February 1, 2020, the construction of a 220 kilovolt power transmission line from the Mary State Power Plant to the city of Herat began. This, in his opinion, will make it possible to export electricity to Pakistan and other South Asian countries in transit through Afghanistan.
