The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev on December 27 took part in the ceremony of commissioning and connecting to the power grid of five solar and one wind power plants in six regions of the country.
These important investment projects have been implemented with the UAE-based company Masdar and several Chinese companies — China Energy Engineering Corporation, China Energy International Group, China Gezhouba Group, SEPCO III, and Dongfang Electric Corporation.
President Mirziyoyev spoke at the launch ceremony and said that today, “we are standing at an important event, which opens yet another bright page in the history of our country: six large solar and wind plants with a total capacity of 2,400 megawatts are to be connected to the grid”.
Those plants include three solar power plants in Jizzakh, Samarkand and Surkhandarya regions and a wind power plant in the Tomdi district, all built by Masdar.
China’s Gezhouba Group launches the generation of first 400 megawatts at solar power plants in Bukhara and Kashkadarya.
Once commissioned, President Mirziyoyev said, these projects worth 2 billion US dollars will generate six billion kilowatt-hours of electricity and save up to two billion cubic meters of natural gas.
Moreover, two million homes in Uzbekistan will be provided with uninterrupted electric energy supply.
