6 june
French Total Ceran has commissioned a photovoltaic plant with a capacity of 100 MW in the Samarkand region of Uzbekistan, this is the second solar station built in the republic over the past year, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the press service the Ministry of Energy of this country.
“A large solar photovoltaic plant with a capacity of 100 MW, built in the Nurabad district of the Samarkand region, today, on May 24, began supplying electricity to the only power system of Uzbekistan,” the Ministry of Energy said in a statement on its website. According to the agency, the $100 million project was implemented by Total Eren, the station will generate 260 million kW annually.h of electricity per year. In September 2019, Total Eren and National Electric Networks of Uzbekistan JSC signed an agreement on the construction of a 100 MW photovoltaic plant in the Samarkand region on the terms of a public-private partnership (PPP). In accordance with the agreement, Total will carry out the design, financing, construction and operation of the power plant for the entire period of the project for 25 years. In May 2021, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Proparco (“daughter” The French Development Agency) provided Total Eren with a loan of 87.4 million euros for the construction of a solar station in the Samarkand region.
This is the second implemented project for the construction of solar generating capacities in Uzbekistan. In August 2021, Masdar from the UAE commissioned a 100 MW photovoltaic plant in Navoi region worth $ 110 million on PPP terms for 25 years. Masdar also won tenders for the construction of solar power stations in three more regions of the country – Jizzakh, Samarkand and Surkhandarya regions with a total capacity of about 900 MW and a cost of about $ 1 billion. The facilities are planned to be built by the fall of 2023. Solar power station construction projects are being implemented within the framework of the program of the Government of Uzbekistan to diversify the country's energy balance, in particular, through the construction of solar generation with a capacity of up to 5 GW by 2030. Oil and gas account for more than 90% of the republic's fuel and energy resources. At the same time, the potential of renewable energy sources is about 51 billion tons of oil equivalent. The potential of solar energy in the republic, where 300 days a year are sunny, is about 50.973 billion tons of oil equivalent.