CAREC harnesses the region's immense energy potential by supporting balanced development of infrastructure and institutions, stronger integration of energy markets, and economic growth through energy trade.

SPOTLIGHT

Feasibility Study for Power Transmission and Distribution Project

The technical assistance supports the government’s strategy for poverty reduction through economic growth by helping prepare a power transmission and distribution project. The project will ensure a sufficient and stable power supply for Kabul — identified as one of the key economic zones of Afghanistan — and other major cities.

Economic Growth through Energy Trade

The CAREC countries are rich in natural resources. Regional energy cooperation is driven by the opportunities for integration of energy markets to overcome the impact of uneven distribution of energy resources; efforts to optimize existing energy interrelationships; and efforts to develop least-cost solutions to energy constraints.

Energy cooperation is stimulated by the availability of attractive energy markets in eastern and southern People's Republic of China, Pakistan, India, and Iran, along with new strategic transit opportunities for oil and gas through Turkey, Georgia, and Russian Federation.

CAREC's Strategy for Regional Cooperation in the Energy Sector seeks to enable

• energy security through the balanced development of the region’s energy infrastructure and institutions, stronger integration of the region’s energy markets to make available adequate volumes of commercial energy to all in a reliable, affordable, financially sustainable and environmentally sound manner
• economic growth through energy trade.

 

 

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