On December 27, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended the ceremony of launching and connecting to the network of 5 solar and 1 wind power plants in six provinces of the country, the presidential press service said.
The event was attended by the CEO of the UAE’s Masdar, Muhammad Jamil Al-Ramahi, the Vice-president of China Energy Engineering Corporation Wu Yun, the CEOs of China Energy International Group Liu Zexiang and China Gezhouba Group Lin Xiaodan, the CEOs of SEPCO III, Dongfang Electric Corporation and others, jointly with which these investment projects are being implemented.
The first solar power plants to be commissioned, built through foreign direct investment on public-private partnership terms, were facilities in Karmana and Nurabad districts with a total capacity of 200 MW, which have so far generated 1 billion kWh of “green” energy.
Now Masdar has completed the implementation of projects for three photovoltaic plants in Jizzakh, Samarkand and Surkhandarya provinces with a 900 MW total capacity. The first stage of a wind power plant with a capacity of 500 MW in Tamdy district of Navoi province.
While, in Bukhara and Kashkadarya provinces of the Chinese China Gezhouba Group, the phase I of two solar plants with a total capacity of 1,000 MW has been completed.
Reportedly, the projects were completed in recordbreaking nine months.
“Despite the most difficult problems due to the production chain and logistics in the world, we have completed work with Goldwind, Sungrow, Jolywood, Longi,” emphasized Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
At the ceremony, the head of state, together with foreign partners, launched the commissioning and connection of new energy facilities to the network. He expressed gratitude to investors, engineers and builders.
As a result of the full commissioning of these projects totaling $2 billion, 2 million households will have uninterrupted access to electricity, it will be possible to save 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas, and produce industrial products and services worth $4 billion.
In his remarks, the president touched upon further plans for the development of this area: “The work we are doing today is a step in implementing reforms in the energy industry. We will consistently continue these measures and gradually switch completely to efficient market mechanisms.”
Currently, work is underway in Uzbekistan on 22 projects for the solar and wind power plants with a capacity of 9 gigawatts.
“We will continue to expand our partnership with foreign companies,” he emphasized.
In general, by 2030 it is planned to increase the capacity of “green” power plants to 27 GW. This will allow saving 25 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually and reducing emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere by 34 million tons.
