CEEC commissions 400MW of 1GW Uzbekistan solar project

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Arctech has supplied its SkyWings trackers at CEEC’s project. Credit: Arctech

The China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC) has commissioned 400MW of a 1GW solar project in Uzbekistan, the latest project to reach commercial operation among the company’s US$8.1 billion Uzbek portfolio.

The company is using trackers produced by Chinese manufacturer Arctech at the project, and the latter announced that the project reached commercial operation on 27 December last year, on schedule. Arctech agreed to supply its SkyWings solar tracking system to the project last August, after launching the single-axis trackers in 2022, which use connected drives to move two tracker rows simultaneously, allowing them to follow the path of the sun in unison.

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The news is a positive development for the Uzbek energy sector, which has historically been dominated by fossil fuels in general, and natural gas in particular, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) reporting that gas accounted for 54% of the country’s generation capacity in 2019.

By the end of 2021, Uzbekistan had installed 104MW of solar capacity, and will need to accelerate the commissioning of new projects if it is to meet the government’s targets of generating 4GW of electricity from solar in 2026 and 5GW by the end of the decade.

Indeed, this is not the CEEC and Arctech’s only project in Uzbekistan, with the companies announcing their collaboration on a separate project in the country last September. At this project, Arctech plans to deploy its SkyLine II tracking system, as it looks to use a range of products across central Asia.

The Uzbek government has sought to attract foreign investment into its solar sector, with Masdar signing plans to develop 2GW of solar and wind projects in the country earlier this year. The IEA also suggests that floating PV has considerable potential in Uzbekistan, considering that the country’s hydropower reservoirs have a water surface that is more than 15 times larger than the world’s largest solar facility in India, and foreign investment could be integral to building the kind of power infrastructure necessary to develop a robust floating PV sector.

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