Masdar awarded tender for Solar Power Plants in the Jizzakh and Samarkand
Date
May 20, 2021
Type
Projects
Subtype
Project in tender
Subsectors
Photovoltaic
Contracting Authorities
Government of Uzbekistan
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Uzbekistan has announced the winning bidder of the public-private partnerships (PPPs) for two photovoltaic solar parks in the Jizzakh and Samarkand regions. These PPPs, tendered under the World Bank Group’s Scaling Solar program, will add more than 400 megawatts of clean and renewable energy to the country’s energy mix.
Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC (Masdar) was awarded the project in the Samarkand region with a bid to supply solar power at US$1.791 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC (Masdar) was awarded the project in the Jizzakh region with a bid to supply solar power at US$1.823 cents per kilowatt-hour.
As transaction adviser, IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, helped the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Energy design and tender the PPPs, which attracted seven bids for the Jizzakh site and six proposals for the Samarkand site.
