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The Times of Central Asia (25 January 2021) 

Tashkent 

Following agreements signed in March 2020, cooperation between Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade, and Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power has led to three major milestones in the development of power projects to enable Uzbekistan’s ambitious energy transformation plan and increase energy capacity by 2500MW, the Ministry of Energy said on January 25.

The ground-breaking ceremony of the 1500MW Sirdarya CCGT plant, followed by the signing of two Power Purchase Agreements and Investment Agreements for two wind power plants located in Bukhara and Navoi, was conducted in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan, Sardor Umurzakov, and Alisher Sultanov, Energy Minister of Uzbekistan, as well as a Saudi Arabian delegation led by Khalid Al-Falih, Minister of Investment for Saudi Arabia and Hisham Mishal Al-Suwailem, the Saudi Ambassador to Uzbekistan.

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