Ministry of Energy: three new thermal power plants have been commissioned in three regions of the country in three months

    Energy 14 March 2022 1516

    In Uzbekistan, in accordance with the resolutions of the President of the country, new modern thermal power plants (TPPs) are being built and put into operation. Only since the beginning of this year, three new thermal power plants with a total capacity of 684 MW have been put into operation in the regions of the country.

    The first of them was launched on January 11, 2022, a 270 MW gas-piston thermal power plant in the Bukhara district of the Bukhara region;

    The second is a combined-cycle gas plant with a capacity of 240 MW, which was commissioned on January 14 in the Kibray district of the Tashkent region;

    The start of operation of the third new thermal power plant with a capacity of 174 MW, built in the Yangiaryk district of the Khorezm region, was given on March 10.

    These three power plants generate a total of 5.6 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. Due to the introduction of energy-saving equipment and technologies on them, 725 million cubic meters of natural gas per year will be saved.

    The saved natural gas will generate an additional 2.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.

    According to the press service of the Ministry of Energy, by the end of March, the fourth new thermal power plant with a capacity of 230 MW will be put into operation in the Kibrai district of the Tashkent region.