Tajikistan intends to increase to 10% the share of electricity that it will receive not from hydroelectric power stations by 2030, said the Minister of Energy and Water Resources of Tajikistan Daler Juma, Reuters reports.
The Tajik minister said that “climate change has led to the melting of glaciers in Tajikistan and the country wants 10% of its electricity to come from sources other than hydropower by 2030 to diversify,” the report said.
Currently, Tajikistan receives about 98% of its electricity from hydroelectric power plants. President Emomali Rahmon previously drew attention to the problem of melting glaciers during his speech at the 78th session of the UN General Assembly. Then he stated that over the past decades, more than 1 thousand glaciers have melted in Tajikistan.
According to Minister Juma, Tajikistan is considering hydrogen as an alternative energy source and is developing a roadmap for its production. As Reuters clarifies, by 2030 Tajikistan plans to produce 500 thousand tons of hydrogen, and by 2040 increase volumes to 1 million tons.
CentralAsianLIGHT.org
September 25, 2023