Afghanistan’s power utility, controlled by the Taliban, says Russian company “Power Machines” has expressed readiness to assess and comprehensively rehabilitate Afghanistan’s power-generation plants.
Afghanistan Breshna Company said in a statement on Wednesday, August 12, that Abdul Haq Hamkar, the company’s chief executive, held talks with technical officials from Russian company “Power Machines” on the comprehensive rehabilitation of power-generation plants, modernization of equipment and increasing generation capacity.
According to the statement, Power Machines plans to assess Afghanistan’s power-generation plants and prepare a plan for their rehabilitation, modernization of equipment and expansion of their generation capacity.
This comes as Afghanistan imports a significant portion of its electricity needs from neighboring countries, while domestic generation capacity remains insufficient to meet the country’s growing demand.
Limited investment, aging equipment and the limited capacity of domestic power plants are among the main challenges facing Afghanistan’s energy sector.
