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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has
approved a $54 million grant to improve
the electricity supply to households and
industry in Tajikistan. The ADB Tajikistan
resident mission (TJRM) has said that the
project aims to reduce energy losses
through metering the entire high and
medium voltage transmission grid and to
expand transmission capacity in Sughd
province.
“Investments in loss reduction are a
priority for the energy sector,” said Levan
Mtchedlishvili, senior energy specialist at
ADB’s central and west Asia department.
“And this project will enable Barqi Tojik
to account for all electricity flows and
associated costs. It will quantify technical
and non-technical losses at the wholesale
level of the entire grid.”
The project will install around 1,100
wholesale electricity meters, as well as
current and voltage transformers and a
settlement system. It will also build a 95km
transmission line connecting Roudaki and
Ayni substations.
The Government of Tajikistan and Barqi
Tojik will provide counterpart funding of
$13 million. Barqi Tojik will be the executing
agency for the project, which is due for
completion in 2020.
Tajikistan power
support
Mobily has completed the fiber optic
network coverage of over a hundred
residential quarters in more than 20
Saudi Arabian cities. In a statement, the
company said that Jazan, Onaizah and
Al-Hofuf are among prominent cities that
were covered by fiber optic network
during the last phase.
Mobily’s continued expansion of its fiber
optic network is to cover cover most cities
and provinces in the Kingdom.
Nasser Al-Nasser, chief operation officer,
said: “Mobily is in a race with time for the
deployment of fiber optic network in all
regions of the Kingdom. Mobily is moving
ahead with important steps that [will] lead
to the implementation of its objectives [to]
preserve the sustainable development to
achieve the maximum benefit from fiber
optic services.”
Saudi fiber
expansion