DUSHANBE, September 21, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- 20,000 new generation electricity meters worth 580,000 U.S. dollars will be delivered to Tajikistan under an agreement reached between Barqi Tojik (the state-owned utility responsible for generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in Tajikistan) and China’s Csic (phonetically spelled).

Nozirjon Yodgori, a spokesman for Barqi Tojik, says 10,000 new electricity meters will be installed in residential buildings in the settlement of Somoninyon, the administrative center of Roudaki district and 10,000 other electricity meters will be installed in residential buildings at the town of Vahdat.

“The new electricity meters will work on the basis of prepayment and according to the preliminary estimates, if all electricity consumers in large cities of the country are shifted to such electricity meters, the question of introduction of electricity rationing during autumn-winter period will probably stand no longer,” the spokesman stated.