KULOB, January 12, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- Electricity supplies to residential customers in the city of Kulob and the settlement of Danghara, the administrative center of the Danghara district have increased by two hours.

Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, Ahmad Kishvarzov (phonetically spelled), engineer-in-chief at the Kulob city electric systems, said that electricity supplies to the city of Kulob and the settlement of Danghara increased by two hours today.  Residential customers here now receive electricity supplies six hour per day: three hours of electricity in the morning and three hours in the evening.  Residents of other districts of Khatlon’s Kulob region still have four hours of electricity per day.

As it had been reported earlier, electricity rationing introduced in the city of Kulob on January 9 resulted in the supply of daily electricity to residential customers being reduced to four hours: two hours electricity in the morning (from 6:00 am to 8:00 am) and two hours in the evening (from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm).

According to the Kulob city electric systems, the move stemmed from a decrease in the volume of electricity supplies from the hydroelectric power plant (HPP) Sangtuda-1.

Before January 9, Kulob had received electricity supplies from the Sangtuda-1 station at the rate of 60,000 kWh per day, while at present the city receives 33,000 kWh of electrical power from Sangtuda-1 per day

According to Kishvarzov, the Sangtuda-1 HPP currently generates 300,000 kWh of electricity; major part of it is supplied via substations Lolazor and Regar to the Tajik aluminum smelter in Turusnzoda as well as via the substation Guzar to the districts subordinate to the center.