Uzbekistan signs investment deal for gas-fired TPP
Apr 20, 2021 11:40:am
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Uzbekistan signs investment deal for gas-fired TPP
Uzbekistan s energy ministry has signed investment and power-purchase deals with a Dutch firm called Stone City Energy for the construction of a 1,560-MW thermal power plant (TPP) in the Surkhandarya region.
The Surkhandarya plant is due to go live by the end of 2024. Its construction is slated to cost $1.2bn. Stone Hill will design, finance, build, commission, operate and manage the TPP for 25 years. Its steam and gas units will be supplied by Germany s Siemens. The agreements signed with Stone City Energy are yet another example of Uzbekistan working with international partners for the benefit of the country, Uzbek energy minister Alisher Sultanov said. Due to the country’s economic growth, and the growing needs of the population, we need to fulfil future energy demand. We look forward to working closely with
Editorial: Bridging the gap [NGW Magazine]
Feb 16, 2021 10:55:am
Summary Pipeline or LNG, natural gas is going to become a lot cleaner. [NGW Magazine Volume 6, Issue 4]
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Editorial: Bridging the gap [NGW Magazine]
As the pipe-laying work on Nord Stream 2 resumes, the US continues to burn political capital with its extra-territorial sanctions on the European companies involved in it.
Most recently, DNV GL has quit the project, leaving open the question of the line’s insurability. The pipeline’s lenders do not doubt – in public – it will be completed and nobody doubts the growing shortage of Europe’s gas reserves. Why then the endeavour to halt it?