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Tajikistan plans no restrictions on power supplies.
DUSHANBE, October 12 (Itar-Tass) -- Tajik authorities plan to
restrictions on electricity supplies to consumers, national energy company Barki Tojik Head Sanat Rakhimov said on Monday.
"We hope to live through the winter without restrictions by increasing
our own power generation and ensuring the transit of Turkmen electricity,"
he said.
Rakhimov denied media reports claiming that partial power consumption
restrictions would be imposed in the country. He said all four units of
the Sangtuda Hydropower Plant-1 with a capacity of 670 megawatts, built
with Russia's assistance, started working this year.
During his recent working visit to Turkmenistan, Tajik President
Emomali Rakhmon received assurances that Ashgabat would supply 1.2 billion
kilowatt/hours of electricity from the end of October 2009 till March 2010
under an inter-governmental agreement.
Additional electricity will be generated by more than 10 mini
hydropower plants that were commissioned this past summer. Work is
underway to modernise Central Asia's biggest Nurek hydropower plant and
upgrade the Kairakkum hydroelectric station in the north of the country.
Rakhimov also noted that "a considerable amount of energy will be
saved due to a transition to energy-saving light bulbs" that will be
issued to more than 250,000 families with many children free of charge.
Rakhmon has banned the import of incandescent bulbs from October 1.
At its meeting on Saturday chaired by the president, the government
adopted a resolution ordering all incandescent bulbs to be replaced with
energy-saving analogues.
"I demand that all executive officials, including the government
staff, diligently implement the resolution adopted in April of this year
on a comprehensive transition of the population and all business entities
to the use of energy-saving bulbs in order to save electricity under the
conditions of severe shortages of electrical energy," Rakhmon said.
He also urged businessmen and entrepreneurs to import household
appliances that do not consume much electricity.
The government has decided to build two plans to make energy-saving
bulbs in Tajikistan. Russia has offered assistance in the construction of
one of them. "We are ready to help. This is a good project," Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting with Rakhmon during his visit
to Dushanbe in July of this year.
To deal with electricity shortages, Tajikistan has launched a new
hydroelectric plant.
"The commissioning in July of this year of Sangtuda Hydropower Plant-1
built on the river Vakhsh with Russian assistance has helped eliminate the
severest problem of electricity shortages," Rakhimov said earlier.
"The Sangtuda hydropower plant with an annual capacity of 2.7 billion
kilowatt/hours is the biggest joint Tajik-Russian project in the CIS and
the first step towards real energy independence of Tajikistan," he said.
Work to complete the hydropower plant located 160 kilometres south of
Dushanbe on the Vakhsh River, was started in April 2005 with 75-percent
Russian capital. In 2008, amid a severe winter with 20-degree frosts that
brought Tajikistan to the brink of energy collapse, the first unit of the
plant was commissioned ahead of schedule, which considerably improved
electricity supply to the million-populated Tajikistani capital. The last
- fourth - power unit of the HPP was put into operation in the middle of
this May.
In addition to electricity to be generated by Sangtuda Hydropower
Plant-1, Tajikistan will also receive 1.2 billion kilowatt/hours of
electricity from Turkmenistan annually until the end of 2012.
In addition, the construction of the Rogun hydropower plant with a
designed capacity of 3,600 megawatts has been intensified. Its first unit
is scheduled to be commissioned in 2012.
The construction of the Rogun hydropower plant was launched back in
the seventies, but after the break-up of the Soviet Union and five years
of the civil war in Tajikistan the construction was suspended.
The HPP will have six units, each with the capacity of 600 megawatt,
and meet the electricity needs of Tajikistan and other countries.
The feasibility study for the project was prepared by Laymayer (the
height of the dam 285 metres, capacity 2,400 megawatt, average annual
output 10.8 billion kilowatt/hour)/
However Tajikistan annulled the agreement on long-term cooperation
with RUSAL signed in October 2004, President Rakhmon announced, after the
parties had failed to come to agreement on the height and the type of the
dam.
Under this agreement RUSAL should have built the largest in Tajikistan
Rogun hydropower plant with a capacity of 13 billion kW/h on the highland
Vakhsh River.
Rakhmon said then that "Tajikistan will build the hydropower plant by
its own means."
According to experts, it will take about one billion U.S. dollars to
finish the plant. Tajik authorities said they would be negotiating with
the World Bank for the creation of an international consortium for the
project.
The Rogun project is estimated at 3.4 billion U.S. dollars.
-0-zak/
restrictions on electricity supplies to consumers, national energy company Barki Tojik Head Sanat Rakhimov said on Monday.
"We hope to live through the winter without restrictions by increasing
our own power generation and ensuring the transit of Turkmen electricity,"
he said.
Rakhimov denied media reports claiming that partial power consumption
restrictions would be imposed in the country. He said all four units of
the Sangtuda Hydropower Plant-1 with a capacity of 670 megawatts, built
with Russia's assistance, started working this year.
During his recent working visit to Turkmenistan, Tajik President
Emomali Rakhmon received assurances that Ashgabat would supply 1.2 billion
kilowatt/hours of electricity from the end of October 2009 till March 2010
under an inter-governmental agreement.
Additional electricity will be generated by more than 10 mini
hydropower plants that were commissioned this past summer. Work is
underway to modernise Central Asia's biggest Nurek hydropower plant and
upgrade the Kairakkum hydroelectric station in the north of the country.
Rakhimov also noted that "a considerable amount of energy will be
saved due to a transition to energy-saving light bulbs" that will be
issued to more than 250,000 families with many children free of charge.
Rakhmon has banned the import of incandescent bulbs from October 1.
At its meeting on Saturday chaired by the president, the government
adopted a resolution ordering all incandescent bulbs to be replaced with
energy-saving analogues.
"I demand that all executive officials, including the government
staff, diligently implement the resolution adopted in April of this year
on a comprehensive transition of the population and all business entities
to the use of energy-saving bulbs in order to save electricity under the
conditions of severe shortages of electrical energy," Rakhmon said.
He also urged businessmen and entrepreneurs to import household
appliances that do not consume much electricity.
The government has decided to build two plans to make energy-saving
bulbs in Tajikistan. Russia has offered assistance in the construction of
one of them. "We are ready to help. This is a good project," Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting with Rakhmon during his visit
to Dushanbe in July of this year.
To deal with electricity shortages, Tajikistan has launched a new
hydroelectric plant.
"The commissioning in July of this year of Sangtuda Hydropower Plant-1
built on the river Vakhsh with Russian assistance has helped eliminate the
severest problem of electricity shortages," Rakhimov said earlier.
"The Sangtuda hydropower plant with an annual capacity of 2.7 billion
kilowatt/hours is the biggest joint Tajik-Russian project in the CIS and
the first step towards real energy independence of Tajikistan," he said.
Work to complete the hydropower plant located 160 kilometres south of
Dushanbe on the Vakhsh River, was started in April 2005 with 75-percent
Russian capital. In 2008, amid a severe winter with 20-degree frosts that
brought Tajikistan to the brink of energy collapse, the first unit of the
plant was commissioned ahead of schedule, which considerably improved
electricity supply to the million-populated Tajikistani capital. The last
- fourth - power unit of the HPP was put into operation in the middle of
this May.
In addition to electricity to be generated by Sangtuda Hydropower
Plant-1, Tajikistan will also receive 1.2 billion kilowatt/hours of
electricity from Turkmenistan annually until the end of 2012.
In addition, the construction of the Rogun hydropower plant with a
designed capacity of 3,600 megawatts has been intensified. Its first unit
is scheduled to be commissioned in 2012.
The construction of the Rogun hydropower plant was launched back in
the seventies, but after the break-up of the Soviet Union and five years
of the civil war in Tajikistan the construction was suspended.
The HPP will have six units, each with the capacity of 600 megawatt,
and meet the electricity needs of Tajikistan and other countries.
The feasibility study for the project was prepared by Laymayer (the
height of the dam 285 metres, capacity 2,400 megawatt, average annual
output 10.8 billion kilowatt/hour)/
However Tajikistan annulled the agreement on long-term cooperation
with RUSAL signed in October 2004, President Rakhmon announced, after the
parties had failed to come to agreement on the height and the type of the
dam.
Under this agreement RUSAL should have built the largest in Tajikistan
Rogun hydropower plant with a capacity of 13 billion kW/h on the highland
Vakhsh River.
Rakhmon said then that "Tajikistan will build the hydropower plant by
its own means."
According to experts, it will take about one billion U.S. dollars to
finish the plant. Tajik authorities said they would be negotiating with
the World Bank for the creation of an international consortium for the
project.
The Rogun project is estimated at 3.4 billion U.S. dollars.
-0-zak/
