The ACWA Power of Saudi Arabia has won the contract to build a 1500-megawatt wind power plant in the Karakalpakstan region of Uzbekistan. This is the fifth power project of ACWA Power in Uzbekistan. The project cost of the Karakalpakstan project is USD 1500 million. This brings the total value of the ACWA Power projects in Uzbekistan to more than USD 4.2 … [Read more...]
Karakum dunes: accumulators of “clean” energy
Begench Karayev, Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan The two-week UN Global Forum on Climate Change (COP-27) with the participation of delegations from 170 countries of the world took place in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh. One of the urgent issues on the agenda is the ways to realize the production of "clean" energy … [Read more...]
Turkmen-UAE partnership on renewables enters new stage
Masdar, one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, and Turkmenenergo State Power Corporation of the Ministry of Energy of Turkmenistan have inked an agreement to develop a 100 megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) plant, which will be the company’s first project in Turkmenistan. The signing was attended by President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov and Dr. Thani … [Read more...]
Turkmenistan and UAE discuss cooperation in renewable energy sector
The delegation of UAE-based Masdar Company, a global leader in renewable energy, is on visit to Ashgabat. On Wednesday, 7 September, the delegation had negotiations with the head of the State Bank for Foreign Economic Activity of Turkmenistan Rahimberdi Jabbarov, reported the UAE Embassy in social nets. The meeting was held as part of the development of bilateral … [Read more...]
The world is burning. We need a renewables revolution.
The only true path to energy security, stable power prices, prosperity and a livable planet lies in abandoning polluting fossil fuels and accelerating the renewables-based energy transition. By António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations Nero was famously accused of fiddling while Rome burned. Today, some leaders are doing worse. They are throwing fuel on the … [Read more...]
Turkmenistan’s vast potential of renewables – First solar-wind power plant contract awarded
nCa Report The Turkish company Chalyk Energy (Çalik Enerji Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.) has won the tender to build the first solar-wind power plant of Turkmenistan with capacity of 10MW. It will be built in the Serdar district of Balkan province, serving the residential and other facilities along the shoreline of the Altyn Asyr lake, the second largest manmade lake in the … [Read more...]
Uzbekistan to build the largest wind power plant in Central Asia
Elvira Kadyrova Last week, the Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan and the Masdar Company (UAE) signed an agreement to increase the design capacity of the ongoing project on wind power plants in Uzbekistan to 1.5 GW. According to the country’s minister of energy Alisher Sultanov, the wind farm will be the largest facility of its kind in the Central Asian region. Moreover, this … [Read more...]