The Uzbek side has been exporting electricity to western Afghan provinces over the last few years, the source said. "In January 2009, the Afghan side completed work on connecting a power line to the Kabul network and currently, Uzbek electricity is being supplied to some of the city’s substations.

Now, when the Khayraton - Puli-Khumri - Kabul power line is commissioned, the volume of electricity supplies to Afghanistan can be increased up to 150 MW at an initial stage, and later up to 300 MW," the source said.

Afghan delegations headed by the Afghan minister of energy and water visited Uzbekistan twice in 2008.