Siemens plans to build the first wind farm in Uzbekistan under the public-private partnership terms, Shukhrat Sheraliyev, deputy chairman of UzbekEnergo said.
"Uzbekenergo is now working with Siemens on a project of a 100 MW wind farm in Zarafshan district of Navoi province, with the estimated project cost at US$ 100 million," Sheraliyev said.
In 2015, German companies Geo-Net and Intec-Gopa presented a wind atlas that reflects Uzbekistan wind energy potential. According to German experts, Uzbekistan has over 520 thousand MW of capacity and over a billion megawatt-hours of electricity can be generated annually - and this is only the preliminary findings.
Based on the atlas Uzbekenergo identified two promising sites - in Navoi region and the southern Karakalpakstan for further detailed WEP studies.
