Voltalia has entered into a partnership with the Uzbek government to co-develop a wind-solar-battery park of up to 500MW in capacity in the country.
The agreement was signed on the sidelines of Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s official visit to France, in the presence of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
The capacity will comprise 200MW of solar, 200MW of wind and 60MW / 240 megawatt-hours of battery storage.
The site will be selected jointly by Voltalia and the Uzbek Ministry of Energy.
Commissioning is scheduled from 2026.
The complex will produce more than one terawatt hour per year of clean energy and will help ease grid congestion in Central Asia.
The partnership is tripartite between the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade (MIFT) and Voltalia.
The Uzbek government wants to increase the country’s energy independence. To ensure its security and growth, Uzbekistan is aiming for a renewable capacity of 8GW by 2026 and 12GW by 2030.
Voltalia’s international development teams, based in Paris, are monitoring the Uzbek market as part of Voltalia’s partnership with one of its shareholders, the EBRD.
Voltalia participated in a first wind tender in 2021 and is participating in another solar tender sponsored by the IFC (World Bank Group).
In the presence of Mirziyoyev, Sébastien Clerc, CEO of Voltalia, said: “We are particularly proud to support the energy transition in Uzbekistan.
“This complex project, which combines three technologies, is a first in the region.
“We want Uzbekistan to benefit from our long experience of multi-energy competitions, whether they are very large projects, such as Serra Branca in Brazil (wind and solar) or smaller ones, such as Toco in Guyana (solar and storage).”