BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb.16
By Natavan Rzayeva - Trend:
Thermal power plants and solar power plants with a total capacity of 1,474 MW will be put into operation in Uzbekistan in 2022, Trend reports referring to the Uzbek Ministry of Energy.
According to the ministry, by the end of this year, 7 new power plants will be put into operation in the country, including 6 thermal power plants (TPP) and one solar photovoltaic power plant, with a total capacity of 1,474 MW.
In particular, in January, two new thermal power plants with a capacity of 270 and 240 MW were put into operation in the Bukhara and Tashkent regions of the country.
It is also planned to construct a solar photovoltaic plant with a capacity of 100 MW in the Samarkand region by April 2022.
Two TPPs with a capacity of 230 and 240 MW in the Tashkent region and one TPP with a capacity of 174 MW in the Khorezm region will be put into operation in March 2022 and one TPP with a capacity of 220 MW in the Syrdarya region will be put into operation at the end of the year.
As a result, the total capacity of the energy system of Uzbekistan will exceed 16,000 MW.
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