Tajikistan has exported more than $43.2mn worth of electricity in the first half of this year. However, this amount is $1.4mn less than what was exported during the same period in 2022, media reports.
Under the agreements in place, the country provides electricity to Afghanistan throughout the year, although the amount is limited during the autumn and winter months. Additionally, neighboring Uzbekistan receives electricity only during the spring and summer seasons, specifically from May to August.
The message emphasizes the inadequacy of electricity supply during the autumnal and hibernal seasons, resulting in an insufficiency to meet the residential consumers' demand.
During the summer months, the Central Asian country has a significant surplus of water and energy resources, which often go unused and are discharged into excess water sources.
In mid-May this year, Uzbekistan's Ministry of Energy declared the start of seasonal electricity imports from Tajikistan.
'It is known that since 2018 the practice of exporting electricity produced in the summer reclamation period to Uzbekistan, which, in turn, serves to increase the flow of natural water entering the water bodies of our country, has been in operation',
the statement says.
According to reports, Tajikistan generated approximately 10.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in the first half of 2023, which is a 3.3% increase from the previous year.
About 95% of electricity is generated by hydropower plants, the remainder by heat stations and small-scale solar plants.
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