Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with a presentation on the state of implementation of renewable energy sources in social institutions and government departments.

By a decree of the head of our state from 16 February 2023, a program was adopted to accelerate the introduction of renewable energy sources. It provides for the installation this year of solar panels with a capacity of 220 megawatts in social and government institutions.

At the meeting, the officials reported on the progress of work in this direction.

It was noted that solar panels with a total capacity of 107 megawatts have been installed to date. Large state-owned companies are conducting these activities at an accelerated pace, but progress is slow in social institutions.

For example, 36 percent of the total planned number of panels have been installed on university buildings, 33 percent on school buildings, and 28 percent on medical institutions. In the country as a whole, the figure reached almost 50 percent. But in the city of Tashkent, the introduction of renewable energy sources is 26 percent of the planned.

The head of state stressed that there are many untapped opportunities and instructed to speed up the work.

This year it is planned to put into operation solar and wind power plants with a capacity of 2,000 megawatts. In addition, recently, as part of the state visit of the President of Uzbekistan to the People’s Republic of China, agreements were reached on the construction of 11 solar and wind power plants with a total capacity of 4.8 gigawatts worth US$4.4 billion.

The meeting also discussed the organization of the implementation of these agreements.