{"id":20810,"date":"2026-08-31T19:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/31\/turkmenistan-power-cut-leaves-eight-afghan-provinces-short-of-electricity\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T19:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:00:19","slug":"turkmenistan-power-cut-leaves-eight-afghan-provinces-short-of-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/31\/turkmenistan-power-cut-leaves-eight-afghan-provinces-short-of-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkmenistan Power Cut Leaves Eight Afghan Provinces Short of Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s power utility, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (Breshna), said an technical problem in Turkmenistan&#8217;s state power grid cut imported electricity to Afghanistan at five points on Sunday evening, leaving several provinces facing blackouts and power shortages.<\/p>\n<p>According to Breshna, the outage occurred at around 5:00 p.m. and affected the Andkhoy 220-kV line, the Andkhoy 110-kV line, the Faryab 6-kV line, the Badghis 110-kV line and the Herat 220-kV line.<\/p>\n<p>Breshna said that as a result, the provinces of Balkh, Jowzjan, Sar-e-Pul, Faryab, Badghis and Herat were completely cut off from imported electricity from Turkmenistan. Parts of the provinces of Samangan and Baghlan were also affected by the outage.<\/p>\n<p>The company added that it is in contact with officials from Turkmen Energo and has requested that Afghanistan&#8217;s electricity be restored as soon as possible. According to information Breshna received from Turkmenistan, a general problem has developed in that country&#8217;s power grid and the system is facing serious technical challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Breshna also said it has made efforts to obtain more electricity from Uzbekistan to make up for the shortfall, but the problem in Turkmenistan&#8217;s power network has also affected Uzbekistan&#8217;s electricity system.<\/p>\n<p>Turkmenistan is one of Afghanistan&#8217;s major sources of imported electricity, and the northern and northwestern provinces of the country depend heavily on its imported power for a significant part of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technical fault in Turkmenistan&#8217;s power grid cut electricity imports to Afghanistan, causing shortages in eight provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20810","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\/20810","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=20810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}