Uzbekistan began to supply electricity to some cities and regions of northern Tajikistan after a long break, said the Minister of Energy and Water Resources of Tajikistan, Usmonali Usmonzoda.

Pakistan and Tajikistan are strategic directions for Turkmenistan to construct power transmission lines.

Electricity output amounted to 22.5 billion kilowatt-hours in 2015 in Turkmenistan, while its export to neighboring countries amounted to 3.2 billion kilowatt-hours, the country’s energy ministry said Feb. 16.

Turkmenistan plans to create 14 gas turbine power plants in order to increase electricity exports to 6.9 billion kWh by 2020, Neutral Turkmenistan Newspaper recently reported.

Azerbaijan has increased electricity export by almost two times in January 2015.

Azerbaijan continues increasing electricity production. The country produced 18.75 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in the last ten months, which is 6.6 percent more than in the same period of 2013, the State Statistics Committee reported.

Azerbaijan has increased electricity export over than 1.8 times.

Thermal power plants (TPP) produced 3.88 billion kilowatt/hours of the total volume of electricity generated in the first two months of 2014.

Azerbaijan will increase the number of its power plants this year.