AFGHANISTAN: Power Sector Master Plan (PSMP) (Final Report)

Meta Data
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Draft Year: 
2013
Effective Start Year: 
2013
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Plan/Strategy, Government Report, Other
Economic Sector: 
Power
Energy Types: 
Power
Issued by: 
The Ministry of Energy and Water and ADB
Source: 
RISE ESMAP
File: 
Power Sector Master Plan (PSMP) (Final Report)
Overall Summary: 
The Power Sector Master Plan (PSMP) (Final Report) provides the results of the work performed for development of the Power Sector Master Plan and also includes the comments received from the Ministry, DABS and the Donors.
Energy Supply and Infrastructure
Infrastructure development priorities: 
According to the results of the optimization study, the following projects are considered as high ranked and the process for their implementation phase must be expedited immediate, if power shortages are to be avoided.  development of Sheberghan TPP with 200 MW  finalizing Salma HPP and Kajaki Expansion HPP  new Turkmenistan to Afghanistan interconnector stage A  additional Hindu Kush crossing stage A  new Turkmenistan to Afghanistan interconnector stage B  NEPS to SEPS interconnector stage A  investment within the provinces stage A.
Investment
Energy sector investment priorities: 
n order to reach high connection rate and to achieve the goal of providing power supply for the whole Afghanistan investment as mentioned in the tables below for all the sub-areas generation expansion, transmission reinforcement and development within the provinces has to be taken. This will need a total investment of $10.096m, $7.330m for generation development and network integration, $1.727m for major transmission projects and reactive power compensation and $1.040m for transmission network development within the provinces up to the year 2032.