Abdul Latif Mansoor, Minister of Energy and Water (MEW), has taken a trip to Uzbekistan to discuss the extension of the electrical power purchase contract with the neighboring country & s officials.
& You understand that we have a contract with Uzbekistan and the electrical power supply has actually been minimized these days.
We are talking to them to resolve this problem and we desire to import more electrical power to Afghanistan and the journey is for this function, & said Mansoor.Officials from the ministry state that the Islamic Emirate has actually paid Uzbekistan for electrical power and they are hoping Tashkent will increase the amount of electrical power exported to Afghanistan.
& In some provinces, including the capital, there is a problem of interruption of electrical power, and to fix this issue, a delegation from the Ministry of Energy and Water and Da Afghanistan Breshna Company have actually traveled to Uzbekistan, & said Ghulam Jelani Haq Parast, director of publications of MEW.Power failures have actually badly impacted production business in current weeks, and entrepreneur have actually appealed for electrical power supply problems to be resolved as soon as possible.
& I hope that the see of the Minister of Water and Electricity of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to Uzbekistan will bring results, because Afghanistan & s industries, especially in Kabul, are in a really crucial state in regards to interruption of electricity, & stated Sakhi Ahmad Payman, deputy head of Afghanistan & s Chamber of Industries and Mines.
& Currently, sixty to seventy percent of our factories have actually stopped [operations], & he added.Meanwhile, economists say that imported electrical power has actually always been a problem for Afghanistan which the government ought to invest more in electricity production inside the country.Afghanistan currently counts on Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Iran for 70 percent of its electrical energy, and pays millions of dollars to these countries every year.The post Minister of energy in Uzbekistan for talks on electricity supplies initially appeared on Ariana News.
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