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The President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, His Excellency Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has inaugurated the 500MW Zarafshan wind farm, the largest operating in Central Asia to date, developed by Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – Masdar, one of the world’s leading clean energy companies.At the inauguration, HE President Mirziyoyev was joined by HE Dr Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, COP28 President and Chairman of Masdar, UAE Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Suhail Mohamed Faraj Al Mazrouei and high-level government and state representatives for the Government of Uzbekistan.
Masdar has committed to invest USD2 billion in clean energy projects in Uzbekistan that have a total capacity of more than 2GW. In addition, Masdar has a pipeline of 4GW of renewables projects in the early stages of development.
Uzbekistan has ambitions to achieve 20GW of clean energy capacity by 2030 and Masdar is working to deliver some of Central Asia’s most important clean energy projects in the country, including the largest solar and wind farms in the region, and its first battery storage project.
Masdar and the Uzbekistan Ministry of Energy also signed an agreement at COP29 to develop a 1GW wind farm in the Mingbulak region of Uzbekistan. The new wind farm will create 1,000 jobs during construction and 60 jobs during operation and deliver clean energy to 300,000 homes in the region once completed. The agreement marks the first phase of a broader strategy to establish three wind farms in the country.
Since its establishment in 2006, Masdar has been a key enabler of the UAE’s vision as a global leader in sustainability and climate action. The company has developed and partnered in projects in over 40 countries, with a mandate to increase its renewable energy portfolio capacity to 100GW by 2030 and to become a leading producer of green hydrogen by the same year. It has set a target of 1 million tonnes per annum of green hydrogen or equivalent derivatives in the UAE and globally within a decade. |
