TASHKENT. Oct 4 (Interfax) - Uzbekistan is supplying electricity to Afghanistan in compliance with the contracts concluded earlier, a spokesperson for the Uzbek Energy Ministry told Interfax on Monday.
"We're honoring all of our obligations. Electric power has been supplied uninterruptedly in line with the agreements reached," he said.
Daud Noorzai, former head of the Afghan state power monopoly DABS, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that Kabul was facing blackouts this coming winter as the Taliban (banned in Russia) have not paid bills for electricity supplies from Central Asian countries and have not resumed collecting payments for electricity from domestic consumers.
The Uzbek joint-stock company National Electric Grid concluded a ten-year contract with DABS for up to 6 billion kW/h of electricity per year on take or pay terms in 2019. Under this contract, Uzbekistan has been supplying Afghan consumers with about 35 MW of electricity per day.