Tajik and Uzbek officials have met in Tashkent to discuss construction of a hydropower plant on the Zarafshon River in the Tajik northern Sughd province. Electricity generated by this plant will be used by Uzbekistan.
A Tajik government delegation led by Deputy Minister of Energy and Water Resources Jamshed Shoimzoda today met in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent with an Uzbek government delegation led by Abdughani Sanginov, Head of Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) UzbekHydroEnergo (UzHydro), according to the UzHydro press center.
Established in May 2017, UzHydro is a state enterprise consolidating under its operation all the existing hydropower plants in the Uzbekistan.
The parties reportedly discussed details of implementation of Tajik-Uzbek joint project on construction of the Yavan hydroelectric power plant (HPP) on the Zarafshon River in the Tajik northern district of Ayni.
An estimated budget for construction of this 140 MW hydropower plant is 282 million U.S. dollars.
At the next stage, the parties are expected to discuss the possibility of construction of a 135 MW hydropower plant on the Fon Daryo River in the Sughd province. A total cost of this project is 270 million U.S. dollars.
Electricity generated by these hydropower plants will be used exclusively for needs of Uzbekistan, the UzHydro press center said.
Recall, in a report released at a news conference in Dushanbe, Deputy Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Jamshed Shoimzoda, noted on January 28, 2018 that a joint Tajik-Uzbek working group will determine the sites for construction of two hydroelectric power plants on the Zarafshon River in the Sughd province.
According to him, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev reached an agreement on a joint construction of the mentioned hydropower plants in 2018.
