The Government of Uzbekistan has announced a winner for public-private partnerships (PPPs) for two photovoltaic solar parks in the Jizzakh and Samarkand regions. Both projects were awarded to Masdar, Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC. In detail, the project in the Samarkand region had a bid to supply solar power at 1.791 US cents per kWh, and the project in the Jizzakh region had a bid to supply solar power at 1.823 US cents per kWh.

These plants will add more than 400 MW of clean and renewable energy to the country’s energy mix. The tender was implemented under the World Bank Group’s Scaling Solar program. IFC was appointed as a transaction adviser and helped the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Energy design and tender the PPPs. In total, the tender attracted seven bids for the Jizzakh site and six proposals for the Samarkand site.