Tajikistan says it has exported $82 million worth of electricity to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan between January and August this year.
According to Tajik media reports, this is a drop of almost $3 million against the same period last year.
Electricity production in Tajikistan, for export, during this period totalled 15.4 billion kilowatt hours.
Of this amount, 80 percent was exported to Afghanistan and the remaining 20 percent to Uzbekistan.
Tajikistan signed electricity export contracts with these two neighboring countries in 2024.
Tajikistan only exports electricity to Uzbekistan in the summer, but mostly exports electricity to Afghanistan in autumn and winter.
Afghanistan imports up to 70% of its electricity needs from neighboring countries including Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Iran.
Earlier this year, the State-owned Corporations said that during the last year, Da Afghanistan Breshna (DABS) has produced a total of 1.2 million megawatts of electricity and imported a total of 5.6 million megawatts of electricity from neighboring countries.