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Tajikistan

Electricity Sector Regulation

The Agency on Antimonopoly Policy and Entrepreneurship considers requests for tariff adjustments, which are provided by Barki Tojik, the national power company, which has been subsumed within the Ministry of Energy. The Office of the President provides final approval of tariffs.

Tariffs

Electricity prices are all regulated, bundled, and vary across consumer classes.

Retail Tariffs:
  
Industry:
 $0.0089 per kWh
Agriculture:
 $0.0166 per kWh
Non-budget/financed consumers:
 $0.0166
Budget-financed consumers:
 $0.0056

Fuel Mix

Hydroelectric:
 97.7%
Natural Gas:
 2.3%

Industry Structure

Barki Tajik is a vertically integrated utility, controlling all generators, transmission and distribution. Newly formed electricity sales companies handle retail operations. In practice, all operations are closely supervised by the Ministry of Energy, which brought Barki Tajik under its direct control in January 2004.

Electricity (2004 data)

Production:
 16.5 TWh
Consumption:
 14.4 TWh
Trade:
 4.4 TWh (export) and 4.8 TWh (import)

More Information

See Chapter IX (Tajikistan) of the Electricity Sectors in CAREC Member Countries: A Diagnostic Review of Regulatory Approaches and Challenges. [ PDF ]

Visit: www.adb.org/Tajikistan/