A subsidiary of Total Eren is to receive almost €88m in funding for a 100MW solar farm in Uzbekistan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Proparco, a subsidiary of Agence Francaise de Developpement.
The €87.7m finance is for Tutly Solar and will help fund the project near the city of Samarkand.
It will consist of an EIB loan of €43.7m and two loans of approximately €21.8m each from the EBRD and Proparco.
The project will help reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by 160,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent and generate 270 gigawatt-hours of electricity.