{"id":10972,"date":"2022-07-13T11:55:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T11:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=10972"},"modified":"2022-07-13T11:55:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T11:55:47","slug":"afghanistan-has-not-paid-debt-for-electricity-says-tajik-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/07\/afghanistan-has-not-paid-debt-for-electricity-says-tajik-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan has not paid debt for electricity, says Tajik official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211;\u00a0Asia Plus news agency reported that Mohammad Omar Asuzada, head of the National Electricity Company of Tajikistan, said in a press conference on Tuesday that Afghanistan has not yet paid its debt for imported the electricity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said that the Afghanistan&#8217;s electricity supply company Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat will gradually pay its debt. The head of the National Electricity Company of Tajikistan has not announced the amount of Afghanistan&#8217;s debt. He emphasized that Tajikistan currently exports 9 million kilowatts of electricity per hour to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the National Electricity Company of Tajikistan announced in January of this year that Afghanistan owes 33 million dollars for the electricity.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, last year, Tajikistan exported electricity to Afghanistan at a total cost of 56.3 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Tajikistan is expected to be connected to Central Asian Power System (CAPS) from 2023, which will bring greater stability to the country&#8217;s electricity system,\u00a0Trend\u00a0reports via International Energy Agency (IEA).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Energy security remains a national priority, and one of Tajikistan\u2019s prime aims to achieve this is by increasing electricity generation capacity, and increase electricity exports,&#8221; the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, by building the new Rogun-Kabul 500 kV line, Tajikistan will increase exports of electricity to Afghanistan, which are projected to reach a minimum of 3 TWh through the CASA-1000 project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These infrastructure projects will allow Tajikistan to not only to increase volume of exports but also imports from Central Asia countries at the same time, increasing its energy security,&#8221; the IEA said.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211;\u00a0Asia Plus news agency reported that Mohammad Omar Asuzada, head of the National Electricity Company of Tajikistan, said in a press conference on Tuesday that Afghanistan has not yet paid its debt for imported the electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,5,337,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-business","category-politics_","category-central-asia","category-news_","category-afghanistan"],"views":319,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}