According to UzbekEnergo, Japanese Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Marubeni Utilite Services will implement a project to modernize Ferghana Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHPP) and supply equipment on turnkey basis.
In the project, a high-efficiency gas turbine cogeneration system with a power output of 17 MW will be installed in late April at the Fergana CHPP. The system is designed to improve power generation efficiency and reutilize exhaust heat from a gas turbine. The same system with a power output of 7 MW will also be installed at the Fergana RK-3 Heat Supply Plant to convert the plant into a combined heat and power plant.
As a result, two systems are expected to use 38% less energy than conventional systems and will annually generate 197.24 million kWh of electric power and 214.5 thousand Gcal of thermal energy.
The project cost is US$ 83.6 million and funded by a US$ 49.5 million grant of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and UzbekEnergo’s own funds.
Ferghana CHPP is currently the only power plant in the Fergana Valley. The station was put into operation in 1978. Its design capacity is 305 MW, electricity production capacity is 560 million kW/h.
