uzbekistan

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided US$142 million in financing for the construction of a 1GW solar and 1.3GWh BESS portfolio in Uzbekistan.

Construction is slated to begin in Q1 2026 for the solar and energy storage portions and Q3 2026 for the wind assets, Voltalia said.

Uzbekistan will be the first country to benefit from the credit facility with the construction of a solar-plus-storage project in Bukhara.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide up to US$229.4 million to ACWA Power to develop a 200MW/500MWh solar-plus-storage project in Uzbekistan.

The World Bank and Masdar have announced a US$159 million financing package to support a 250MW solar-plus-storage project in Uzbekistan.

French renewables company Voltalia has begun construction on a 126MW solar PV project in Uzbekistan.

The Bank of China has supplied ACWA Power with a US$80 million equity bridge loan for the latter’s Tashkent solar-plus-storage portfolio.

The Samarkand and Jizzakh solar power plants use more than 11,000 Vanguard 1P trackers supplied by TrinaTracker.

The China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC) has commissioned 400MW of a 1GW solar project in Uzbekistan.

Solar Module Super League member (SMSL) JA Solar has shipped 240MW of n-type modules to a solar PV project in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan.