by Rufat
The largest in Central Asia, Nurek Hydroelectric Power Station broke down. The emergency happened this morning at 6:30 AM. As a result the majority of Tajikistan’s districts are remaining without electricity: 75 percent of the country’s territories including the capital Dushanbe, strategic objects are using reserve sources, the Tajik Aluminum Company “TALKO” is one of them. There was no electricity for more than three hours, all the efforts were used to eliminate the emergency and at the moment the consequences of the emergency were partially eliminated and several objects are already receiving electricity.

The reasons of the emergency are not being announced yet. However, according to “Asia Plus” informational agency, which refers to the press-secretary of “Barki Tojik” Nozirdzhon Edgori, the country was hit by unexpected cold snaps, which have resulted in the increase of electricity consumption and which consequently resulted in the overload of power lines and subsequent automatic shut down of the entire Tajik energy system. This shut down is anticipated by the technical peculiarities of the system to avoid the emergencies on the HPS. According to Edgori: “As the energy system of Tajikistan was running in autonomous regime, outside the United Energy System of Central Asia, the power lines were overloaded, which was besides caused by the cold snaps, almost the entire country this morning woke up deenergized.