Electricity sector of Uzbekistan prepares for a major construction and upgrading of power generation capacity. In the next five years the power engineering sector will acquire about $5.2 billion.

Uzbekenergo company plans to implement 44 investment projects in 2011-2015, 15 of which in thermal power sector, 9 – in hydropower, 16 – in electrical networks, and 4 in other directions. According the estimation of the specialists, $3.5 billion will be spent on new construction, $1.7 billion on the renovation of the existing equipment. In this case the costs of modernization and development of generating capacity will amount to $3.9 billion, of the development of electrical networks - $940 million and $370 million will be spent to modernize the accounting system with the creation of electricity metering system, the construction of an experimental wind energy plant and a number of other projects.

According to Ravshan Artikov, the head of department of the prospects for energy development, the further development of the electricity sector in the country will attract about $2.5 billion of foreign investment. “Thus, as a part of the expansion of Talimarjon and the modernization and reconstruction of the Tashkent thermal power plants, the reconstruction of the units N 1-5 of Novo Angren power plant, the sector has attracted funds from the Asian Development Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Exim Bank of China and a Japanese NEDO grant,” said the representative of Uzbekenergo.

One of the important projects in the sector is the implementation of an automated system of accounting and control of electric power, which is provided through loans from the World and Asian Banks. As a result of the modernization, Uzbekenergo plans to launch 2,147 MW of generating capacity, stretch over 1,000 km of power lines, cut electricity losses by 1.8 billion kWh, and to install 4.5 million electronic meters.

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