Two new combined-cycle plants with a total capacity of at least 900 MW will be built at the Talimarjan thermal power plant by 2025. The project will be implemented through soft loans from the Asian Development Bank.
The general contractors of the project will be INTECSA Ingeniera Industrial (Italy) and Mitsubishi Corporation (Japan), with which Thermal Power Plants, the government entity in charge of thermal plants, has entered into contracts.
According to the press service of Thermal Power Plants, the project will ensure reliable supply electricity to consumers in Samarkand and Bukhara provinces, seven pumping stations on the main canal and a number of settlements.
As a result of the increase in generating capacity, TPPs will additionally generate 7.2 billion kWh of electricity per year. At the same time, due to the use of highly economical technologies, 520 million cubic meters of natural gas will be saved, and the amount of carbon dioxide and pollutant emissions into the environment will be reduced by 1,500 tons per year.
In September, Uzbekistan and Emirati companies Mubadala and TAQA signed agreements to establish a joint venture that will operate Talimarjan TPP. The volume of foreign investment will be about US$ 1 billion, 700 million of which will be the repayment of loans that TPPs attracted earlier.
In 2016 and 2017, two combined-cycle plants with a total capacity of 900 MW were launched at Talimarjan TPP. Construction was carried out by South Korean companies Daewoo and Hyundai. The first, thermal power unit of the station with a capacity of 800 MW was launched in 2004 (the construction of the station itself began in Soviet times).
