BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 19. In the village of Toru-Aygyr (Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan), the construction of the first solar power plant has started, said Minister of Natural Resources Dinara Kutmanova, Trend reports via Kyrgyz media.
According to the preliminary data, the cost of the project is estimated at $300 million, and the capacity of the solar power plant will be 300 MW.
"This project is the biggest in Central Asia. For comparison, the largest renewable energy projects in the field of solar energy in Uzbekistan have a design capacity of 120 and 100 MW," Kutmanova said.
Notably, this project is being implemented on the basis of a public-private partnership with the support of Kazakhstan's Green Finance Center and funding from the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB).