Tajikistan starts exporting electricity to Uzbekistan

Beijing. April 3. Silkroadnews - Tajikistan started exporting electricity to Uzbekistan, the Tajik Telegraph Agency (TajikTA) reported on Tuesday.
On April 2 Tajikistan started delivering electricity to Uzbekistan. A day earlier a power transmission line from the Regar substation (Tajikistan) to the Gulcha substation (Uzbekistan) has been commissioned.
The total volume of Tajikistan’s exports of electricity to the neighboring country is expected to amount to 1.5 billion kilowatt-hours per year, a source in the government said.
Earlier, Dushanbe and Tashkent agreed on prices for the supply of Tajik electricity to Uzbekistan.
In the summer, Uzbekistan will purchase Tajik electricity for two US cents per kilowatt, in winter - 2.5 cents per kilowatt.
To remind, on December 20 of last year, at the meeting of the country’s parliament, the Minister of Energy and Water Resources of Tajikistan Usmonali Usmonzoda said that Tajikistan could start supplying electricity to Uzbekistan.