ADB approves $125m loan to improve Uzbekistan’s power transmission

This is in line with the Digitize to Decarbonize–Power Transmission Grid Enhancement Project.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a $125m loan to Uzbekistan to support the Central Asian nation’s in improving its power transmission grid, energy efficiency, and deploying more renewable energy.

In a statement, ADB said the fund for the Digitize to Decarbonize – Power Transmission Grid Enhancement Project will be used to rehabilitate Uzbekistan’s 12 transmission lines with a total length of 359 kilometres, located in seven regions which include Bukhara, Fergana, Kashkadarya, Samarkand, Surkhandarya, Navoi, and Tashkent.

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This will also cover the finance for the reconstruction and modernisation of four 220-kilovolt substations in Faizabad, Obi-Khaet, Zafar, and Zafarshan.

A part of the project will be the digitalisation of the transmission grid by replacing old technology with modern high-voltage lines and substations to connect them with the supervisory control and data acquisition system.

ADB added that the project will reinforce the Nationa Grid of Uzbekistan’s corporate governance and project management capacity which will include the creation of strategic plans and gender-responsive policies, amongst others.

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