ACWA Power, the world’s largest private water desalination company, leader in energy transition and first mover into green hydrogen, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary NOMAC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Uzbekistan’s Agency for Technical Regulation. Under the agreement, NOMAC will equip the Uzbek National Institute of Metrology with calibration services for measuring instruments used in renewable (wind and solar) power plants in the Republic of Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic of Uzbekistan.
With an investment value of USD 1.7 million, NOMAC Sirdarya Operation and Maintenance Services will equip a laboratory complex in the branch of the National Institute of Metrology in Karakalpakstan with modern high-precision measuring instruments and related services.
On behalf of ACWA Power and NOMAC, the agreement was signed by Abid Malik, Regional Head for Central Asia, and Ahmed Fahad, Head of Operations and Maintenance Cluster BU. Meanwhile, on behalf of the Uzbek Agency for Technical Regulation, the agreement was signed by Director Akmal Jumanazarov, while Director Lazizbek Saidoriov signed on behalf of the National Institute of Metrology of Uzbekistan.
The MoU was signed in the presence of H.E. Jurabek Mirzamakhmudov, Minister of Energy of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and ACWA Power, including Mohammad Abunayyan, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, ACWA Power; Thomas Brostrom, Chief Development & Investment Officer, ACWA Power; Jon Zaidi, Country Head for ACWA Power in Uzbekistan.
The signing ceremony took place within the framework of the ACWA Power team’s visit to Nukus to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Beruniy Wind IPP project, in the presence of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
The wind project includes a 200 MW wind power plant and 100 MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in the Beruniy Region of Karakalpakstan.
Representatives of ACWA Power highly appreciated the planned projects and emphasised the importance of calibrating the measuring instruments used in the wind and solar power plants under construction. The possibility of implementing these tasks in cooperation with the National Institute of Metrology of Uzbekistan was discussed.
In connection with the rapid development of industry and the growing need for precise measurements, the country has been continuously implementing initiatives to improve metrological laboratories.
ACWA Power has planned to make significant investments in the Republic of Karakalpakstan that include Kungrad 1, 2, 3, and 4 wind projects with a combined capacity of 2 GW, the 100MW Karatau Wind IPP, and the 5GW Aral Wind IPP, which is Central Asia’s largest wind farm, amounting to over USD 8.4 billion of investments, and solidifying the region as a renewable energy hub.
