OREANDA-NEWS. On June 28, 2008 the “Uzbekenergo” State Stock Company announced a tender to choose a general contractor for modernizing the Tashkent Thermal Power Station worth nearly USD 200 million.

According to the tender terms, a winner is to construct “turnkey” combined-cycle power units of 370 Megawatts for the power station. The project is funded by credits of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.

The Tashkent Thermal Power Station has fixed capacity of 1,860 Megawatts. Its first power generating unit was launched in 1963 and the last one (12) in 1971. Uzbekistan’s government approved the national Power Engineering Development Program for the period of 2010, ensuring to invest nearly USD 1 billion in modernization of power generators.

Besides the Tashkent Thermal Power Station, the country plans to reequip the Navoi Thermal Power Station (Navoi region) and Mubarek Thermal Power Station (Kashkadarya region), installing new steam-to-gas power units. The reconstruction of these establishments needs total investment of USD 450 million.

In December 2004 Russia’s EMK Engineering launched the first power unit of Talimarjan State District Power Station having capacity of 800 mwt in Kashkadarya region.

The State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan says that in 2007 the country generated total electricity of 48,95 billion kwt/h including subsidiaries of “Uzbekenergo” 46.273 billion kwt/h. The rest of electricity was generated by autonomous thermal power stations of industrial companies and small water power stations of the Uzbek Ministry of Agricultural and Water Resources.

The thermal power stations produced aggregate electricity of 42,554 billion kwt/h and water power stations and power generating units 6,396 billion kwt/h. Last year 20,356 million hectocalorie of heat and power was produced for consumption.

Today the Uzbek power system has 42 power stations having total capacity of 12,358 mwt including aggregate capacity of 16 power stations of “Uzbekenergo” 12,04 thousand mwt. The potential power engineering output is 56-57 billion kwt/h.