ADB backing TAP interconnection project

ADB is backing a framework agreement for the proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) Power Interconnection Project that was signed last week. TAP will be phased into two concurrent stages. The first phase — to be completed by 2021 — will use the existing infrastructure under the ADB-financed Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TUTAP) power interconnection project. The second phase — to be completed by 2022 — will transfer power from Turkmenistan through the border of Serhetabad (in Turkmenistan) and Torghundy into Herat, Kandahar, and Spin Boldak in Afghanistan and export to Chaman and Quetta in Pakistan. ADB will be providing advisory and financing for the project.