JAN. 10 2023 (The Bulletin) — The UAE’s Masdar has signed a deal to build a 200MW solar power station in Kyrgyzstan, media reported. Kyrgyzstan, like the rest of the Central Asia region, needs to ramp up its electricity production fast. It has also come under major criticism for the collapse in the quality of air around Bishkek.
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FEB. 5 2021 (The Bulletin) — Azerbaijan said that it will build a floating power station with a capacity of 100kW on Boyuksor Lake near Baku, part of its drive to ramp up power production. It named Spain’s Gamma Solutions as the main contractor for the project. Azerbaijan, like other countries in the FSU, has been trying to boost power generation capacity to match a surge in demand.
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DEC. 30 2020 (The Bulletin) — Kazatomprom, the world’s largest uranium miner, said that it wanted to sell its three solar power subsidiaries — KazSilicon, Astana Solar and Kazakhstan Solar Silicon. The three companies had produced parts and materials for solar panels. Kazatomprom, which mines 25% of the world’s uranium, said that it wanted to concentrate on its core business.
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DEC. 23 2020 (The Bulletin) — The EBRD, the ADB and the World Bank agreed to lend the Uzbek government $125m to finance its first solar power project. The plant is being built in Uzbekistan’s industrial heartland in Navoi by Masdar, an Abdu Dhabi company and will produce 270 gigawatt hours of energy per year, which Bloomberg said was enough to power 31,000 households.
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DEC. 3 (The Bulletin) — Masdar, the UAE-based renewable energy company, signed a deal with the Armenian government to build a solar farm in the west of the country with a power generation capacity of 400MW. Masdar has been winning renewable energy projects across the region.
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JAN. 23 (The Conway Bulletin) — Foreign ambassadors and senior government officials in Kazakhstan opened the largest solar power plant in the region at Saran in the centre of the country. The $137m project was funded by the EBRD and has the capacity to generate 100MW of power. At the opening, Kazakh Energy Minister Kanat Bozumbayev, said that the government wants to generate 3% of its power through renewable energy by 2020, 20% by 2030 and 50% by 2050.
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TASHKENT, AUG. 24 2017 (The Conway Bulletin) — Uzbekistan joined the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), an intergovernmental organisation set up to help member countries strengthen their sources of green power. IRENA has 152 members. Uzbekistan has previously shied away from joining international organisations. Under the presidency of Shavkat Mirziyoyev, though, it has become open to international cooperation.
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JUNE 15 2017 (The Bulletin) — The EBRD is set to finance the construction of a second solar power park in southern Kazakhstan, media reported. The EBRD will give a loan of $45m for the solar power park, the Clean Technology Fund will give $10m and the owners of the field, not named by media, will stump up another $80m. After the construction of Burnoye Solar 2, it will constitute one of the biggest solar power fields in Europe or Central Asia.
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FEB. 24 2017 (The Conway Bulletin) — Armenia will start producing solar panels later this year under a government-sponsored scheme designed to give solar-power a boost in the country, media reported quoting Hayk Harutyunyan, the deputy energy infrastructure and natural resources minister. He said that 50 jobs will be created at the plant which will begin production in Q3 2017.
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JAN. 14 2017 (The Conway Bulletin) — Zhuhai Singyes Green Building Technology, a Chinese company, won a tender at the end of 2016 to build a solar panel field in southern Uzbekistan, state-run Uzbekenergo told the Trend news agency. Uzbekistan has been looking to boost its renewable energy capacity and has been increasingly turning to solar power.
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