OREANDA-NEWS. October 05, 2010. Due to the growth of demand for power in Uzbekistan, the problem of aging infrastructure and the limited number of transmissions lines—1,850 km of 500kV lines, 6,200 km of 220kV lines, and 15,300 km of 110kV lines—some provinces experience frequent overloading, power losses and long power outages. Such bottlenecks are becoming a serious problem, reported the press-centre of Uzbekenergo.

Furthermore, the south receives power from the northeast, where 70% of electricity is generated, while more than 90% of natural gas is produced in the southwest; this means that natural gas is transported to the northeast to produce electricity and then sent back to customers in the south and southwest. The problem of transporting energy in this manner is being addressed in a Government plan which will involve using local natural gas to produce power for local use, thus eliminating the need to transport it and the losses that result from this inefficient process.

To this end, the plan involves constructing two combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) units adjacent to the existing Talimarjan Thermal Power Plant (TPP) and one CCGT unit in Navoi Province. These new units are to be located in the south of the country to make use of the local natural gas resources.

DETAILED INFORMATION SEE IN SECTION UE "TALIMARDJAN TPP":
http://www.uzbekenergo.uz/eng/ue_talimardjan_tpp/