DUSHANBE, March 3, Asia-Plus  -- Uzbekistan has resumed electricity supplies to Tajikistan..

According to Barqi Tojik (Tajik electric systems) power holding, Uzbekistan resumed electricity supplies to Tajikistan on March 1.  The source at Barqi Tojik said that Uzbekistan yesterday supplied 8.2 million kWh of electricity to Tajikistan.

We will recall that Uzbekistan cut off exports of electricity to Tajikistan on February 24.  According to the Uzbek authorities the cutoff was due to technical problems in Uzbekistan’s thermoelectric power plants.  Until February 24, Uzbekistan was supplying some 5 million kWh of electricity to Tajikistan daily.      

In all, Tajikistan received 17.6 million kWh of electricity from neighboring countries yesterday.  In addition to 8.2 million kWh of the Uzbek electricity, Tajikistan yesterday received 9.4 million kWh of electrical power from Turkmenistan.