{"id":10692,"date":"2026-04-16T11:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/16\/afghanistan-electricity-self-sufficiency-domestic-production\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:40:29","slug":"afghanistan-electricity-self-sufficiency-domestic-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/16\/afghanistan-electricity-self-sufficiency-domestic-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Aims for Electricity Self-Sufficiency Soon, Says Head of Afghan Electricity Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Haq Hamkar, the General Executive Director of the Afghanistan Electricity Company, announced during his visit to Kunduz province that efforts are underway to achieve self-sufficiency in the electricity sector. According to him, the electricity shortage problem will be resolved in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting with local officials of the province, Hamkar expressed hope that with the implementation of new programs, Afghanistan will be able to sustainably meet its electricity needs. He stated that strengthening domestic electricity production is one of the company\u2019s top priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity shortages have been a serious challenge for residents in several provinces in recent years, a situation that has consistently drawn criticism from citizens and the private sector alike. It is expected that the Taliban administration will take practical and effective measures to improve energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan Electricity Company, responsible for managing and distributing electrical energy in the country, has previously emphasized the development of domestic production projects and reducing dependence on imported electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s electricity chief says the country is close to achieving electricity self-sufficiency and plans to strengthen domestic production soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}