Uzbekistan scales up green electricity in 2025
First three months of 2025 show rapid growth in clean energy, cutting fossil fuel use and carbon emissions
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (MNTV) — Uzbekistan generated more than 2 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of renewable electricity in the first three and a half months of 2025, underscoring the country’s accelerating shift away from fossil fuels.
The record was achieved through a growing network of renewable infrastructure, including 11 solar and three wind power plants spread across 10 regions.
These facilities have a combined installed capacity of 4.06 gigawatts (GW). Of the total renewable output this year, solar plants produced 1.16 billion kWh, while wind farms contributed 830.1 million kWh.
According to the Ministry of Energy, wind generation in the first three and a half months of 2025 has already exceeded total wind output for all of 2024, which stood at 799 million kWh.
Uzbekistan has significantly expanded its renewable capacity in recent years. In 2022, solar plants in the Navoi and Samarkand regions generated 434 million kWh.
This rose to nearly 577 million kWh in 2023. Overall, the country produced 4.86 billion kWh of green electricity last year from nine solar plants and one wind farm.
The rise in clean energy production has also had an environmental impact.
According to government figures, 600 million cubic meters of natural gas have been saved in 2025 so far, along with the avoidance of 1.176 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions and 1,176 tons of nitrogen oxides.
When hydropower is included, Uzbekistan’s total renewable electricity generation reached 3.7 billion kWh by mid-April.
This broader effort has helped the country avoid burning around 1.11 billion cubic meters of gas and prevented 2.18 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
The Ministry of Energy estimates that this volume of clean electricity is enough to power 4.63 million households for four months—or meet the annual energy needs of 1.54 million homes—highlighting the growing role of renewables in meeting national energy demand.
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