DUSHANBE, September 12, Asia-Plus - German’s Lehmeyer International has prepared documents on detailed evaluation of a number of facilities of the being constructed Roghun hydropower plant in Tajikistan.

Aleksandr Kasatkin, a spokesman for the representative office of “Russian Aluminum” (RusAl) n Dushanbe, has told Asia-Plus that the documents were submitted for consideration to Tajikistan’s Ministry of Energy.  “The prepared documents are a part of the feasibility study conducted by the German company for completing the construction of Tajikistan’s Roghun hydropower plant,” Kasatkin stressed.   .

A source in the Ministry of Energy has confirmed that they received a package of documents.  “The ministry is currently considering the documents and will have given its assessment of them by the end of the month,” the source said.  

Under agreements announced during Russian President Vladimir Putin''s visit to Tajikistan on 16 October 2004, RusAl is slated to invest a total of $2.2 billion in Tajikistan over the next seven years.  RusAl plans to invest these funds in completing the construction of the Roghun hydropower plant on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan and in the construction of two electrolysis workshops with an annual capacity of 100,000 tons at the Tajik Aluminum Plant (TadAZ) and the construction of a new aluminum smelter in southern of Tajikistan with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons.  RusAl has to date invested $50 million into the first stage of the Roghun project, aimed at creating infrastructure for the specialists needed to construct the power station itself.