President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with the activities of a new small hydroelectric plant built near Hissarak water reservoir in Shakhrisabz district.
Hissarak water reservoir was built in 1987 and substantially reconstructed in 2004. There is a main hydroelectric power plant with the capacity of 45 megawatt in this district, which was put into operation in 2011. It annually produced about 80 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, which covers the demand of approximately 33 thousand households.
Special attention in Uzbekistan is paid to expanding the use of ecologically clean, inexpensive and renewable energy, as well as increasing the existing capacities. “Uzbekhydroenergy” JSC is actively implementing projects on developing small and micro hydroelectric power plants.
One of such stations is the new small hydroelectric power plant in Shakhrisabz district with the capacity of 3.5 megawatt, which will produce around 17.5 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. The project was fully implemented using the localized resources. The total cost of the station is $1.5 million. Due to its work, it will be possible to save up to 5 million cubic meters of natural gas annually. The produced electricity will be enough to provide for 7.3 thousand households.
The Head of State was presented information on further plans in hydroenergy.
Among the priority projects are the construction of 416 micro hydroelectric power plants with kinetic turbines with the totally capacity of 12 megawatts in the next two years. These installments will effectively use the water flow in aryks and canals.
Currently there are three hydroelectric power plants with the total capacity of 49 megawatt in Kashkadarya region. Due to new projects, this indicator will be greatly increased in the future. It’s planned to cover 15 percent of electricity need of the population with hydroenergy.
Overall, in the past eight years the production of electricity in Uzbekistan increased by 38% and reached 81.5 billion kilowatt hours. In the current year throughout the entire country it’s planned to put into operation additional five small hydroelectric power plants with the capacity of 24.7 megawatt.