TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, December 19. Emirati Masdar Energy Company has started testing the first wind power generation facilities in Uzbekistan’s Navoi region, Trend reports.
As per data from Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Energy, the 500 MW power plant is being built by order of Masdar, which won the tender for the construction in October of 2020.
In 2022, the company and Uzbek authorities signed a contract with China's Goldwind Company for the supply of 111 turbines of 4.5 MW each.
The ministry states that the first stage of the wind farm operations is planned to be launched before the end of 2023.
After its full launch in 2024, the power plant will annually supply 1.9 GWh to the electricity grid of Uzbekistan. This volume will cover the needs of more than 500,000 households while saving 175 million cubic meters of gas and reducing emissions by 1.1 million tons.
Meanwhile, Masdar launched the first commercial solar power plant in Uzbekistan in August of 2021. The company is also working on a number of other projects in the field of green energy. Among them are a small 40 kW power plant in the Tashkent region and three power plants with a total capacity of 897 MW in the Jizzakh, Samarkand, and Surkhandarya regions.
Moreover, in 2022, an Emirati company was chosen to build a 250 MW power plant in the Bukhara region.
In May of 2023, Masdar won a tender for the construction of a power plant near Guzar in the Uzbek Kashkadarya region. At the EBRD Samarkand Forum, the company signed agreements on the creation of new power plant projects worth $2.6 billion.