Tajik, Chinese companies sign deals
to build two power lines in Tajikistan
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (The Associated
Press) - Apr 20, 2006
Tajikistan's national electric power company signed
deals with a Chinese company to build two power transmission
lines in this ex-Soviet republic, an official said
Thursday.
Under the contracts signed Wednesday, Barki Tojik
and the China Theban Electric Apparatus Stock, will
build a 350-kilometer (220-mile) power line, linking
the country's north with the south, and another 95-kilometer
(60-mile) line in a southern region, Tajik Energy
Ministry spokesman Nozirjon Yodgori.
The lines will have an annual capacity of 500 and
220 kilowatts respectively, he said.
China's Eximbank will provide 95 percent of the combined
US$340 million (euro275 million) cost of the projects
and the remaining 5 percent will be provided by the
Tajik government, Yodgori said.
The impoverished mountainous Central Asian nation
actively seeks foreign investment to develop its electric
power industry as it pursues plans to become a regional
electricity supplier using its huge hydropower resources.
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