Renewable energy in Tajikistan

In 2008, Tajikistan produced 0.16 quadrillion BTUs (QBTUs) of primary energy, a decrease of -0.01 QBTUs over the prior year and a compound growth rate of -0.73% over a 5 year period.

Primary energy consumption meanwhile decreased by -8.69% over the prior year to 0.26 QBTUs, equating to 38.17 million BTUs per capita which places Tajikistan into the 58th percentile of countries worldwide for per capita primary energy consumption.

Tajikistan’s total electricity capacity has decreased on an annual compound basis by 0% over the last 20 years to 4,426 megawatts (MW) in 2008. In the last year, the total installed capacity base neither increased nor decreased.

Total renewable energy capacity accounts for 91.21% of this total installed capacity base whilst renewable energy sources excluding hydropower account for 0%.

Total capacity did not increase in the last year .

Total electricity generation meanwhile fell -7.68% over the last year to 15.97 billion kilowatthours (bn kWh) in 2008 with the largest source for electricity generation being Hydroelectricity (98.23% of total net generation).

Conventional sources including conventional thermal (coal, petroleum, gas), nuclear power and hydro pumped storage accounted for 1.77% of total electricity generated, up from 0.88% 5 years previously.

Conventional Energy sources represented 8.79% of total installed capacity in Tajikistan in 2008, an increase of 0.03 percentage points over a 5 year period.

Conventional thermal energy had an installed capacity base of 389 MW in 2008, a change of 0 MW over the previous year and a 0% change on a compound basis over a 5 year period. Conventional thermal energy has seen its share of total installed capacity increase from 8.76% in 2004 to 8.79% in 2008. Conventional Thermal Energy generated 0.28 billion kilowatthours of electricity in 2008, equating to 0.73 billion kilowatthours of electricity per million kilowatts of capacity.

Renewable Energy sources represented 91.21% of total installed capacity in Tajikistan in 2008, a decrease of -0.03 percentage points over a 5 year period.

This renewable energy capacity generated 15.69 billion kilowatthours of electricity (98.23% of the total), primarily from Hydroelectricity (100% of the 15.69 bn kWh generated).

Hydroelectricity had an installed capacity base of 4,037 MW in 2008, a change of 0 MW over the previous year. It’s share of total installed capacity decreased from 91.24% in 2004 to 91.21% in 2008 and it’s share of renewable installed capacity remained unchanged at 100% in 2008.

Hydroelectricity generated 15.69 billion kilowatthours of electricity in 2008, equating to 98.23% of the total electricity generated. This is equivalent to 3.89 billion kilowatthours of electricity per million kilowatts of capacity, which was the highest ratio amongst renewable energy sources.

Tajikistan has 5.8% of the total regional capacity for Hydroelectricity and ranks at #31 in the world for Hydroelectricity installed capacity.

In 2008, total carbon dioxide emissions in Tajikistan reached 6.89 million Metric Tonnes (mn MT), a compound decrease of -0.62% over a 5 year period. Tajikistan’s total represented 0.27% of total regional emissions and 0.02% of total world emissions.

On a per capita basis meanwhile, Tajikistan ranked at #149 worldwide, with per capita emissions falling on 2007 by -0.12 metric tonnes to 0.96 metric tonnes.

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