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Illuminating the roof of the world: Tajikistan exports hydroelectricity to Afghan Badakshan

Tajikistan · 7 October 2013 ·

PamirEnergy, a project company of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, is operating all power generation, transmission and distribution facilities of GBAO under a 25-year concession agreement with the Government of Tajikistan. In its initial phase PamirEnergy doubled the installed capacity at the Pamir I power plant, enabling most of the plant’s Khorog customers to have electricity 24 hours a day for the first time since the end of the Soviet era. Now cross-border transmission lines between Tajikistan and Afghanistan enable PamirEnergy to also export surplus power to Shugnan, Afghanistan and Afghan Ishkashim.

AKDN / Jean-Luc Ray

Article Author: Illuminating the roof of the world: Tajikistan exports hydroelectricity to Afghan Badakshan

Media Source: Asia-Plus

Date: 7 October 2013

Governments of Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Norway, in Partnership with the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), have inaugurated power transmission line into Ishkashim, Afghan Badakhshan. According to press release issued by AKDN Tajikistan, a newly-constructed power transmission line bringing electricity from Tajikistan to Afghanistan was inaugurated on May 2. The Pamir Energy Company (PamirEnergy), a project company of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), and the operator of the hydroelectric power plant, has now begun exporting surplus energy from the cross-border regions of Tajik Ishkashim into Afghan Ishkashim.

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