BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 1. Uzbekistan looks to attract Russian ‘Rosatom’ State Atomiс Energy Corporation to modernize systems of electricity and heat supply in Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent, Trend reports via Uzbek media.
The matter was discussed between the acting Khokim (governor) of Tashkent city, the deputy of khokim, and heads of Tashkent’s public services with the Director of the Design Bureau of Energy Efficiency and Infrastructure Solutions of the Rosatom.
During the meeting, the sides discussed the measures to prevent electricity and heat outages, modernize the communal infrastructure, as well as improve the electricity and heat supply in the capital city.
Following the negotiations, the sides considered the directions and prospects of mutual cooperation, while the Rosatom, for their part, promised to send a working group of specialists to Tashkent to solve the issues raised during the talks.
Earlier in September 2022, Rosatom’s subsidiary TVEL fuel company and the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan signed an agreement for the supply of modified nuclear fuel for the WWR-SM research reactor. According to the agreement, deliveries of nuclear fuel to Uzbekistan will be carried out by the Russian company from 2022 through 2023.
