At the Talimarjan thermal power plant in the Nishan district of Kashkadarya province, the construction of two new combined cycle gas plants has begun, the press service of the Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan said.
INTECSA Ingeniera Industrial (Italy) and Mitsubishi Corporation (Japan)wer assigned as the general contractors of the project, with which Thermal Power Plants signed contracts in November 2022.
The project cost is estimated at $771.8 million. The total capacity of the new power units will be 1,065 MW (previously it was reported that it would be at least 900 MW). It is planned to complete the construction and put the units into operation by the end of 2025.
The new power units will reportedly produce up to 8.5 billion kWh of electricity annually and provide electricity to consumers in Samarkand and Bukhara provinces, as well as pumping stations on the Karshi Canal. In addition, the new units will help to save up to 600 million cubic meters of natural gas and reduce atmospheric emissions by 1,500 tons per year.
In early July, the chief of Thermal Power Plants, Bakhodir Juraev, was reprimanded by the president for the slow implementation of investment plans at the Talimarjan TPP.
In September last year, Uzbekistan and the Emirates' Mubadala and TAQA signed agreements to set up a joint venture that will operate the Talimarjan TPP. The volume of foreign investment will be about 1 billion US dollars, 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 the 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).
