The Ministry of Energy and Water announced the commencement of work on the new 252 MVA Tarakhil substation and the 220 kV transmission line from Chimtala to the new Tarakhil substation.

According to Abdul Latif Mansour, the acting minister of the ministry, these projects are valued at $18.7 million and will be operational within the next two years.

The acting minister said that the implementation of these projects will resolve the power outage challenges in Kabul's industrial parks, hospitals, and government offices.

The acting Minister of Energy and Water said: "When the 220 kV power transmission line from Dasht-e-Chimtala reaches here, electricity will be provided to approximately 250,000 people in Kabul. Additionally, the electricity problems of our industrial parks and hospitals will be resolved."

Meanwhile, Mawlawi Abdul Kabir, the Deputy Prime Minister for Political Affairs, at the opening ceremony of the project, said that despite Afghanistan's high energy production capacity, due to the turmoil of past years, Afghanistan still ranks among the countries that import electricity.

Mawlawi Abdul Kabir added that efforts to generate energy from domestic resources are among the Islamic Emirate's key priorities.

The Deputy Prime Minister for Political Affairs said: "We are grateful to all the countries with whom we have electricity agreements. For a war-torn country like Afghanistan, the fundamental solution is to rely on domestic resources and generate electricity from the country's internal resources."

Meanwhile, officials from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Chamber of Industries and Mines also call the provision of the necessary energy for production factories in the country crucial for achieving self-sufficiency and describe the construction of the Tarakhil substation in Kabul as a significant step towards increasing electricity for factory owners.

Ahmadullah Zahid, the Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce, said: "Our demand from the industrialists is that if we want Afghanistan to be economically stable and independent, we must transform Afghanistan into an industrial country."

According to the statistics from the Ministry of Energy and Water, Afghanistan has a capacity to produce 23,000 megawatts of electricity from water resources, 67,000 megawatts from wind resources, 222,000 megawatts from solar resources, and 6,000 megawatts from thermal resources.