{"id":9184,"date":"2023-03-06T23:13:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T18:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2023-03-06T23:13:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T18:13:30","slug":"saudovskaya-kompaniya-acwa-power-rasshiryaet-investitsionnoe-prisutstvie-v-uzbekistane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/novosti-uzbekistana\/saudovskaya-kompaniya-acwa-power-rasshiryaet-investitsionnoe-prisutstvie-v-uzbekistane\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi company ACWA Power expands investment presence in Uzbekistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>On March 4 this year, the ceremony of starting work on the construction of a solar power plant with a capacity of 400 MW in the Tashkent region was held in Tashkent, the press service of the MIIT <a href=\"https:\/\/miit.uz\/ru\/news\/saudovskaja-kompanija-acwa-power-rasshirjaet-investitsionnoe-prisutstvie-v-uzbekistane\">reported<\/a>. In accordance with the agreements reached, the Saudi company ACWA Power will carry out the design, financing, construction and further operation of the power plant for 25 years.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14959\" src=\"http:\/\/sverenins.uz\/wp-content\/uploads\/f8e1c6a8a302465b4f71eb2924b2a14a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As part of the event, Investment Agreements were also signed between the Ministry of Investments, Industry and Trade and ACWA Power for the construction of solar power plants with a total capacity of 1000 MW in the Samarkand region, 400 MW in the Tashkent region and an autonomous electricity storage battery with a capacity of 1,200 MW.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking with a welcoming speech, the Minister of Investments, Industry and Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan Laziz Kudratov sincerely congratulated all those present on the launch of a large-scale project that reflects the positive dynamics of development and strengthening of the multifaceted cooperation between Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A number of economic benefits were noted that will be achieved as a result of the implementation of projects, namely: the creation of more than 3,000 new jobs during construction and 300 during operation; electricity generation in the amount of 3.5 billion kWh per year; natural gas savings in the amount of 1 billion cubic meters. m per year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>For reference: ACWA Power specializes in the construction, design, financing and operation of power plants, as well as water desalination facilities. The staff consists of about 3500 people. The company&#8217;s international presence covers more than 12 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Central and Southeast Asia. ACWA Power&#8217;s portfolio includes over 38.7 GW of generating capacity.<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 4 this year, the ceremony of starting work on the construction of a solar power plant with a capacity of 400 MW in the Tashkent region was held&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti-uzbekistana"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9186,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions\/9186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}