Energy crisis aggravating in Tajikistan
Seems like the energy crisis in Tajikistan will never end, the situation gets worse every day. In addition to all the electricity problems which were torturing the population throughout the whole winter it is aggravated by the low level of water in the reservoir of the Nurek hydroelectric power station – the main station in the country and the ‘accident which occurred at the transit LEP-500 (power line) which supplies electricity to Tajikistan from Uzbekistan.’
The republic’s other regions are supplied with electricity for no more than one hour and a half a day, and rural provinces haven’t been receiving it at all since October 2006.
According to head of the press centre of the company Nozirdzhon Edgori, an alarming situation has developed at the Nurek hydroelectric power station - - the chief producer of electric power in the republic. Over the past 24 hours, the level of water in the station reservoir dropped by almost one metre and a half below the critical mark which can cause an emergency situation at the station and its final stoppage. Now the Nurek hydroelectric power station generates 25 million instead of 40 million kilowatt hours a day.
Supply of electric power to Tajikistan from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, where problems also emerged, has been sharply reduced. The situation was aggravated ever more by an accident which occurred at the transit LEP-500 which supplies electricity to Tajikistan from Uzbekistan.
on April 29th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
i really don’t understand why we export energy to other countries while we don’t have energy at our homes to warm ourselves up. I really don’t understand. It just doesn’t make sense. Can someone please explain?
on May 2nd, 2007 at 10:39 am
vizhejoon,
as far as I know it simply depends on the economic interest - the foreign market gives a hard currency and the price for the electricity is higher than on the internal market. When the there is a choice to export electricty for high prices and provision of the local population with electricity for low prices, of course the distribution companies will chose the first one.