Сonstruction of power bridge CASA-1000 started in Tajikistan

Almaty. May 12. Silkroadnews – Tajikistan launched the implementation of the CASA-1000 project, Tajik telegraph agency (TajikTA) reported on Thursday.

“On May 12, 2016, in Tursunzad city president of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, prime minister of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov, prime minister of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah and Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif May 12 Tursunzade gave a start for implementation of the CASA-1000 project,” the government of Tajikistan announced.

The project provides for the electricity export from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The day before, though, Afghanistan’s energy minister Ali Ahmad Usmani said his country has decided to reject electricity consumption within the CASA-1000 project, agreeing to the role of a transit country for electricity to be delivered to Pakistan.

The major investors of the project are the World Bank, Islamic Development Bank, European Investment Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and others.

The 500 kV high-voltage line Datka-Khujand (477 km) connecting the energy systems of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan is expected to be built during the first phase of the project.

Next stage assumes building 750 km transmission line from Tajikistan to Afghanistan and later to Pakistani city of Peshawar.

Cost of the project CASA-1000 is $1 billion.