Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - Turkish Aksa Energy is implementing an investment project in Uzbekistan to build a new gas power station in Tashkent with a combined cycle capacity of 240 MW. The project is carried out on the basis of an agreement signed by the company with the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Dunyo reports.

Despite certain difficulties arising from the global pandemic of the coronavirus COVID-19, the company intends to complete the construction of the station in one year. To speed up the work, it is planned to transfer some of the company's specialists from other countries to Uzbekistan.

The project is carried out on the basis of the modern investment model of “public-private partnership”. Aksa Energy will build and operate a power plant for 25 years, the Uzbek side has taken upon itself the guarantee of providing the station with natural gas and purchasing electricity generated by it.

This company is one of the world leaders in the market for the production of power plants; it exports its products to 165 countries. It produces generator sets at its own facilities located in Istanbul (Turkey) and Changzhou (China).

It should be noted that the AKSA Power Generation holding (“AKSA Jenerator Sanayi A.S.”) opened an official representative office and exclusive distributor of AKSA products in Uzbekistan - AKSA POWER LLC. All products of the company have a quality certificate. And the company itself is certified for compliance with the ISO 9001 quality management system.