On 23 March, Tashkent thermal power station, which is located in Qibray city near Tashkent city, hosted a solemn ceremony of the laying the first stone of new block of combined-cycle power station with the capacity of 370 megawatt.

Uzbekenergo state joint stock company is customer of the project with the cost of US$468 million.

The project is implemented by consortium of foreign firms, which includes the Czech company SYNECTA a.s.

The project will be implemented by two subsidiaries – Slovak firms SYNECTA a.s. Šaĺa and the Uzbek firm SYNECTA Central Asia a.s.