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The President launched the construction of new facilities in Karakalpakstan worth over $1.5 billion
According to the presidential press service, in order to ensure stability in the transmission of electricity, three electricity storage systems with a total capacity of 400 megawatts will be built in the Kungrad, Beruniy and Karauzyak districts.
The construction of several of these projects begins today. The first is a wind power plant with a capacity of 1 gigawatt worth $1.2 billion, which will be built by the Chinese company Sany Renewable in the Kungrad district.
The second is a wind power plant with a capacity of 200 megawatts with a storage system for 100 megawatts of electricity worth $250 million. It will be created jointly with the Saudi company ACWA Power in the Beruniy and Karauzyak districts.
In the future, they will generate 4 billion 200 million kilowatt-hours of "green" energy per year, which is equivalent to the annual consumption of 1 million 750 thousand households. As a result, about 1.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas will be saved, and the volume of emissions into the atmosphere will be reduced by almost 2 million tons.
At the same time, construction of enterprises for the production of parts, racks and blades of wind turbines is beginning in the Kungrad district. As a result, the production of parts of wind turbines with a capacity of 1 thousand megawatts and 120 racks per year will be localized, import-substituting products for $ 100 million will be manufactured.
In addition, in the Nukus district, due to investments in the amount of $ 24 million, the production of 20 million heating radiators per year will be established.
It is also noted that these days 12 projects worth $ 62 million are being launched in industry, agriculture, tourism and the service sector. Two of them were opened at the ceremony: large shopping centers in the Beruniysky district and the city of Nukus.
The head of state pressed a symbolic button and gave the start to the construction and operation of new facilities.
