Voltalia to develop 123MW Uzbek solar farm

• The project is scheduled for commissioning in 2024

Voltalia has actually won a tender for new 123MW solar farm in Uch-Uchak in the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan.

The proposed site lies near the Turkmen border in the western Uzbek province of Khorezm, around 150km southeast from the rural funding Urgentch and around 900km west of the nation's capital Tashkent.

The solar plant will make use of the most recent available modern technology, with high performance bi-facial panels mounted on trackers.

With commissioning scheduled for 2024, the contract will consist of the style, construction, funding, possession, procedure as well as maintenance of the power plant and also the design, funding and building of the purchaser affiliation centers.

The business went into the tender in July 2022, sponsored by the World Bank via the IFC Scaling Solar Programme.

The investment will be funded by project debt and will certainly be supported by the leading development finance institutions in the region.

Uzbekistan's renewables release plan targets the development of 12GW of solar and wind capacity by 2030 as well as this investment in Khorezm will add to reaching the ambitious targets set by the Uzbek government.

"Following the signing of an innovative collaboration agreement with the Government of Uzbekistan in November, we are very pleased to have won this 123MW solar tender today. Uzbekistan will be just one of Voltalia's vital markets going forward and also we are proud to sustain the nation in reaching its ambitious 2030 targets, considerably boosting the country's eco-friendly electricity manufacturing as well as its energy independence" claimed Sébastien Clerc, Chief Executive Officer of Voltalia.