The Dushanbe-2 combined heat and power (CHP) plant is Tajikistan’s largest and the most equipped and modern thermal power plant. A total cost of the project is reportedly 349 million U.S. and it was implemented due to a loan provided the Export-Import Bank of China. The plant consists of two lines.
Dushanbe-2 power station (also known as Душанбинская ТЭЦ-2, ТЭЦ «Душанбе-2» (Russian) is a 400-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station inDushanbe, Tajikistan. The map below shows the power station in the city of Dushanbe, less than a kilometer from the city’s Botanical Garden. Loading map...
The Dushanbe-2 CHP plant provides with heat Dushanbe’s Sino and ismoili Somoni districts and directs electricity to country’s power grid and from there electrical power is distributed throughout the country. Last year, the Dushanbe-2 CHP plant reportedly generated nearly 1.4 billion kWh of electricity and 411,000 gigacalories of heat.
Since launching of the Project in 2018, a new substation "Poytakht" (landmark: "Amphitheater", 110/10kV) has been built in I. Somoni district of Dushanbe, and the second substation "Sanoat" located in the Sino district (landmark: Farovon market, 110/10kV) has been rehabilitated.
The first 50 MW unit of the first line of the Dusahnbe-2 CHP plant was introduced into operation in January 2014 and the second 50 MW unit of the first line was introduced into operation on September 13, 2014.
On September 13, 2014, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping inserted the time capsule into the foundation stone for construction of the second line of the Dushanbe-2 CHP plant. Construction of the second line of the plant began in 2015 and it was introduced into operation on December 8, 2016.