Electricity Sector Transformation and Resilient Transmission

active

Prospective

The proposed Project would have the following four components: (i) Digitalization of the electricity transmission sector; (ii) Power grid strengthening and renewable energy integration; (iii) NEGU institutional development and project implementation support; and (iv) Electricity market development.COMPONENT 1: Digitalization of the electricity transmission sector. The proposed Project will take advantage of the modern digital technologies to support the enhanced monitoring, automation and control of the power system in Uzbekistan. Digital technologies to be deployed under the proposed Project would comprise of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Energy Management System (EMS) and substation Remote Terminal Units (RTUs). This component will also support an upgrade of NEGU’s digital telecommunication network to enable those systems to be fully functional.COMPONENT 2: Power grid strengthening and renewable energy integration. The proposed investments under the Component 2 will support: (a) modernization of 22 priority transmission substations that were commissioned in 1940/1950s; and (b) construction of a new greenfield substation Koltsevaya 500 kV as well as associated transmission lines to meet increasing demand and improve the reliability of electricity supply for residential, industrial, commercial and public consumers in the Central part of Uzbekistan, where the transmission networks are currently overloaded. COMPONENT 3: NEGU institutional development and project implementation support. This component will support developing and improving the institutional capacity, financial substantiality and technical capabilities of NEGU to ensure it can effectively carry out its functions of reliable operation of the transmission system and electricity market in Uzbekistan. The component will include the following sub-components: (i) Modernization of NEGU business process; (ii) NEGU financial sustainability and preparatory work to access commercial financing; (iii) NEGU institutional capacity building and project implementation support; and (iv) Technical supervision consultancy.COMPONENT 4: Electricity market development. This component will provide technical assistance for the design and implementation of the electricity sector’s transition plan toward the establishment of a wholesale electricity market, including the preparation of secondary legislation, market rules, institutional capacity building, and design and implementation of systems required for market operation and management

FY17 - Energy and Extractives,FY17 - Information and Communications Technologies

World Bank Group

Project

Power Transmission, Manufacturing (Industrial), Telecommunications, Residential, Power Generation (CCGT), Government, Commercial