Description

The technical assistance (TA) is intended to support the Government of Afghanistan in identifying power sector deficiencies and systematically prioritizing the sector's rehabilitation needs. Transmission will be optimized and integrated, and generation expanded, to promote interregional electricity trade, improve energy security and efficiency, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The TA will also increase the capacity of the Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) to a level at which MEW can analyze the country's power sector needs without the help of a third party. During an Asian Development Bank (ADB) reconnaissance mission in March 2010, the government, through the MEW, requested financing for this TA. The impact will be increased energy security in Afghanistan. The specific performance targets, to be developed by the TA project team and the government, will include increases in indigenous generation, and electricity trade within the region.