Projects Database Map: Navoi Scaling Solar Independent Power Producer Project
Remarks
WB website and IFC website have different accounts regarding total cost. IFC source was used
Beneficiary
UZB
Start / End year
2021 - 2023
Sector
Energy
Sub-sector
Solar
Project description
The proposed project will be the country’s first competitively selected private investment in power generation, first grid-scale renewable energy project, and first World Bank guarantee operation in Uzbekistan, with strong demonstration effects in Central Asia and beyond. The proposed Navoi Scaling Solar IPP Project supports the Government's policy objectives and reforms in the energy sector. These include expanding generation capacity through renewables, improving security of supply from domestic energy resources and promoting private sector participation to strengthen the energy sector sustainability, which is crucial for economic recovery and growth and job creation. Support under this WBG initiative is expected to accelerate the Uzbekistan energy sector development and improve its efficiency by deploying new business and financing schemes in the form of PPPs/IPPs. The Navoi Scaling Solar IPP will also support the Government’s commitments on climate change and its Nationally Determined Contribution implementation, particularly through the development of renewable energy and avoidance of GHG emissions. The proposed project’s implementation and success will further accelerate the deployment of new renewable generation capacities, and hence the clean energy transition to stimulate economic recovery and development of appropriate infrastructure, when the COVID-19 crisis eases. The proposed project will involve the first-time deployment of an IFC financing in the energy sector and the IBRD’s risk mitigation product in Uzbekistan. The project will directly contribute to the Maximizing Finance for Development (MFD) /Cascade Approach goals and bring additional climate co-benefits from the development of scalable clean energy investment program.
Expected Results
The most significant project level outcome is a reduction in carbon emissions of Uzbekistan. The solar PV plant is expected to displace aging and energy intensive thermal power generation in the merit order of dispatch and increase electricity supply from a renewable source at a competitive tariff. By supporting the development of the first utility scale solar PV IPP procured under the Scaling Solar framework, the Project demonstrates a competitive replicable model to scale solar PV in Uzbekistan that will catalyze private sector in a market with limited IPP track record, reinforce a new market structure with increased IPP participation, and improve resilience through the diversification of Uzbekistan's electricity generation mix with low-cost renewable energy generation.
Project Phases
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Implementing agency
World Bank (IFC) / National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan (NEGU), World Bank (Washington DC)
Main partner
WB
Total budget by main partner
$ 36,310,800
Co-financing
Yes - ADB, private capital
Budget of co-financing
€ 63,543,900
Total budget (original)
$ 110,000,000 (Exchange rate: 0.90777)
Loan budget
$ 54,466,200