The project was announced by the Tajik President Emonmali Rakhmon and Afghan Energy Minister Muhammad Ismail Khan. Overall the project will produce 4 billion kilowatt hours on an annual basis.
In total the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank are expected to help fun the project. In the future the parties might also hope to develop a projet on the scale of four times the size on the same river. The current project which has been agreed on will cost $3 billion USD.
