DUSHANBE , June 9, Asia-Plus  -- Tajikistan has supplies electrical power to Afghanistan since mid-May.   Tajikistan plans to export some 50 million kWh of electricity to the neighboring country during summer months, Asia -Plus has learned at Barqi Tojik (Tajik electric systems) power holding.

Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, Rashid Gulov, an engineer-in-chief with Barqi Tojik, said that Tajikistan currently supplies electricity to Afghanistan at the rate of some 200,000 kWh per day.   According to him, Tajik electricity is still supplied to Afghanistan only during spring-summer period (May-October).   

“This year we plan to export some 50 million kWh of electrical power to Afghanistan ,” said the engineer-in-chief.   “Last year, we exported 51 million kWh of electricity to Afghanistan .”  

Asked about electricity supplies to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan during summer months, Gulov said that Tajikistan currently supplies to only to Uzbekistan .   According to him, Tajikistan ’s electricity debts to Kyrgyzstan are inconsiderable.   Tajikistan has to export 55 million kWh of electricity to Kyrgyzstan in exchange of 11 million kWh of Kyrgyz electricity received during winter months.  

As far as electricity supplies to Uzbekistan are concerned, in accordance with the government-to-government agreement between the two countries, Uzbekistan should supplies some 600 million kWh of electricity to Tajikistan during the autumn-winter period and in exchange for that, Tajikistan should supply 900 million kWh of electrical power to Uzbekistan during spring-summer period.

We will recall that Tajikistan has been supplying electricity to Uzbekistan since late May and 58.2 million kWh of electrical power have been transmitted to Uzbekistan by June 6.     

            A statement released by Barqi Tojik said that during this past autumn-winter period, Tajikistan has received 492 million kWh of electricity from Uzbekistan instead of the planned 600 million kWh, and the remaining 108 million kWh will be supplied to Tajikistan in the upcoming winter.    

Tajikistan currently generates some 60 million kWh of electrical power per day, according to the source.