Masdar Enters Tajikistan Market with Plans to
Masdar expands Central Asian presence with agreement to explore ground-mounted solar, onshore wind, floating solar and
Alongside mass growth in Tajikistan's production of green hydrogen, Juma stated that Dushanbe plans for 10% of Tajikistan's energy production by 2040 to come from other renewable sources such as wind and solar.
With an aging electricity supply that relies almost entirely on one source of power generation, hydropower, Tajikistan has a uniquely unstable power supply that has caused energy shortages and rolling blackouts for decades. Now, Tajikistan appears to be moving its energy sector towards greater reliability and sustainability.
Brussels seems also to view investments in Tajik energy as a way to offset a much more intense adversary: Russia. The traditional regional hegemon in Central Asia, Russia has control over Tajikistan's second-largest hydropower plant, Sangtuda-2, and continues to import most of its petroleum, 63.3%, from Moscow.
China is an important investor for Tajikistan's hydropower sector. In 2020, China upgraded Tajikistan's Golovnaya Hydropower Station, after having renovated it two previous times. In May 2023, the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank provided $500 million in soft loans to help construct the colossal Rogun hydroelectric plant.
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