Effective management of combined renewable energy resources in Tajikistan

Water is needed mostly in summer time for irrigation and in winter time for generation of electric power. This results in conflicts between downstream countries that utilize water mostly for irrigation and those upstream countries, which use water for generation of electric power. At present Uzbekis...

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Published in:The Science of the total environment 2013-09, Vol.461-462, p.835-838
Main Authors: Karimov, Khasan S., Akhmedov, Khakim M., Abid, Muhammad, Petrov, Georgiy N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural Irrigation - economics
Conservation of Natural Resources - methods
Conservation of Natural Resources - trends
Hydropower
Irrigation
Mutual supplementary
Photovoltaic
Renewable Energy - economics
Solar energy
Tajikistan
Water Supply
Wind power
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Summary:Water is needed mostly in summer time for irrigation and in winter time for generation of electric power. This results in conflicts between downstream countries that utilize water mostly for irrigation and those upstream countries, which use water for generation of electric power. At present Uzbekistan is blocking railway connection that is going to Tajikistan to interfere to transportation of the equipment and materials for construction of Rogun hydropower plant. In order to avoid conflicts between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan a number of measures for the utilization of water resources of the trans-boundary Rivers Amu-Darya and Sir-Darya are discussed. In addition, utilization of water with the supplement of wind and solar energy projects for proper and efficient management of water resources in Central Asia; export-import exchanges of electric energy in summer and winter time between neighboring countries; development of small hydropower project, modern irrigation system in main water consuming countries and large water reservoir hydropower projects for control of water resources for hydropower and irrigation are also discussed. It is also concluded that an effective management of water resources can be achieved by signing Water treaty between upstream and downstream countries, first of all between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In this paper management of water as renewable energy resource in Tajikistan and Central Asian Republics are presented.
ISSN:0048-9697
1879-1026
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.05.095