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CASA-1000

energy & resources. Also Central Asia–South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project

A World Bank-backed project, approved in 2014, to build transmission lines and converter stations that would carry up to 1,300 megawatts of surplus summer hydropower from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan, with a converter station at Peshawar. The four countries oversee it through an intergovernmental council. Financing also comes from the Islamic Development Bank, the EBRD and the European Investment Bank, among others.12

Linked from 2 pages across CUPA.

Sources

  1. CASA-1000: Central Asia South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project (brief). World Bank. Official
  2. The CASA-1000 Project Crosses Another Important Milestone. World Bank, 2018-09-24. Official

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