After countless turns in the hilly highway running south of Tajikistan’s capital, Dushanbe, the waters of Nurek reservoir materialize in a burst of dull apatite blue. Until the gigantic Roghun dam is ...

The Nurek dam is located 30 km upstream of Baipaza dam, in Tajikistan. The Nurek dam, commissioned in 1972, is the highest embankment dam in the world at 300 m high. The power plant has an installed ...

Building the world’s tallest dam seems almost anachronistic in an age when the environmental and social costs of big dams are widely acknowledged. Yet Tajikistan this month launched the first turbine ...

Low cost, reliable and renewable, hydroelectric power has become the world's largest source of renewable energy, accounting for a fifth of global electricity, according to the World Bank. As our ...

Amid a cold snap last week, parts of Tajikistan – including the capital, Dushanbe – were without power. Residents of the capital complained of electricity, heating, and water shut-offs during the ...

The dam, the central feature of the Nurek Hydroelectric Power plant, stands 300 meters high, and supports nine hydroelectric generating units. The facility provides as much as 98 percent of Tajikistan ...

Episode five of the Big In The Stans tour sees White City breaking the dam in Nurek. NUREK IS FAMOUS for having the tallest hydro-electric dam in the world. It was the pride of the Soviet Union, but ...

The day after a nearly nation-wide blackout, Tajikistan officially began (again) construction on the Rogun dam. To mark the occasion, President Emomali Rahmon drove a bulldozer, pushing a pile of dirt ...

The project is located in the Vaksh river, in Tajikistan. The Nurek hydropower plant is the largest hydropower plant in Asia. It comprises a 300-m-high embankment dam with a watertight core, two ...