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CASA-1000 electricity exports
project ‘delayed for one year’
MANAGING director of Pakistan’s National from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to Pakistan via
CENTRAL ASIA Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC), Afghanistan.
Manzoor Ahmad told Business Recorder in an The project is designed to export up to 1,300
interview that the Central Asia-South Asia MW of electricity during the summer months
(CASA-1000) electricity transmission project from both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
has been delayed for one year due to the suspen- It envisages construction of a 750-kilometre
sion of funds for Afghanistan by the World Bank HVDC line between Sangtuda, Tajikistan, and
and USAID. the city of Peshawar, Pakistan, via the Salang Pass
CASA-1000 is a $1.16bn project currently and the Afghan capital Kabul.
under construction, which is set to allow for
the export of summer surplus hydroelectricity
Mongolia’s energy sector operating
at loss of MNT 92bn says minister
CENTRAL ASIA MONGOLIA imported electricity worth become energy independent. Two local coal
$145.5mn in 11M21, according to the minis- power plant projects are already in limbo as a
try of energy. The volume represented a gain of result of China’s decision not to finance coal-
11.3% y/y. based power plants around the world.
Energy minister Tavinbekh Nansal stressed The 450-megawatt Tavan Tolgoi thermal
that the energy sector was operating at a loss of power station is a significant plant that will
Mongolian tughrik (MNT) 92bn ($32.2mn). power the Tavan Tolgoi coal mine. The plant will
“We need [however] to meet domestic energy be able to deliver energy to big mining projects
needs in order to launch large projects and pro- in the Gobi region, generating significant reve-
grammes to revitalise the economy,” he stated. nue for the state budget. Mongolia’s Oyu Tolgoi
At the 30th Congress of the Mongolian Peo- copper-gold mine alone spends an average of
ple’s Party (MPP), Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene $110mn to $120mn per year on Chinese elec-
Luvsannamsrai said that Mongolia needed tricity supplies to meet its energy needs.
to develop a nuclear power plant in order to
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