Tajikistan has abundant resources of still untapped hydro energy, particularly where it concerns small hydropower plants (sHPP). There are a number of sHPPs already built and operated by local communities throughout Tajikistan that were made out of necessity; however, they are mostly improvised and inefficient. The Strategy focuses on community based micro to small HPPs (up to 1000kW of installed power), privately or community owned and operated, which will operate off-grid during winter, supply local communities at mutually agreeable terms and conditions, and in the cases where it is feasible, work on-grid during summers and sell all of the produced electricity to the grid.