Mar 10, 2021: NESPAK (Pakistan Engineering Services Pakistan) in a joint venture with DOLSAR, Turkey, has won the Sustainable Hydropower Project in Uzbekistan.
NESPAK Managing Director Dr. Tahir Masood told media persons here on Wednesday that the project would install three Hydro Power Plants with the total capacity of 24MW in the Aksu River, Kashkadarya Region, Uzbekistan, namely Rabat Hydropower Project, Chappasuy Hydropower Project, Tamshush Hydropower Project with associated 22km long 35-110 kV transmission lines, and mini-hydro units of the total one megawatt in aggregate capacity. He mentioned that the total cost of the project would be US $ 75 million.
Dr. Tahir Masood added that Joint-Stock Company “Uzbekhydroenergo” (Uzbekhydroenergo) was the project executing agency. They have received financing from Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the subject project for an EPC “turnkey lump-sum” contract and for the project supervision consulting services to implement the project.
The NESPAK-DOLSAR joint venture would provide services in the role of project consultants for project management, project performance monitoring, design review of technical documents and construction supervision.
The project would support Uzbekistan’s national goals to increase renewable energy generation and diversify its energy mix.
He elaborated that the project had multifaceted interventions to help Uzbekistan (i) deploy small and mini-hydropower plants (HPPs) to add 25 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy capacity; (ii) develop a hydropower master plan to optimize a future investment program, which will help develop planning capacity for climate resilience and environmental sustainability; and (iii) compliment sector reforms by strengthening the institutional capacity of Joint-Stock Company Uzbekhydroenergo.
By winning this project, he remarked, the NESPAK had paved its way in the vast energy market of Central Asian States. “This project has opened new horizons for NESPAK. With already ranked 13th in global construction management/program management firms by ENR magazine, NESPAK is committed to complete this project within time and budget. The project will also bring much-needed foreign exchange to Pakistan,” he concluded.
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