Uzbekistan seeks to ensure the growth of its economy and create the foundations for a successful business by reforming its energy sector. Uzbekistan plans to replace the existing electricity generation capacity with modern, efficient technologies that will allow the country to keep electricity costs low while ensuring a reliable energy supply. Possessing excellent conditions for the use of wind and solar energy, Uzbekistan is well positioned to become the leading country in the field of renewable energy in Central Asia.
Wärtsilä cooperates with Uzbekistan in reforming the country’s energy sector by modeling power systems and optimizing assets. Energy systems modeling is aimed at understanding the operation and basic principles of power systems and quantifying the benefits of various power plants at the system level in order to find the optimal combination of power with the total cost of the optimized system. Detailed modeling of the power system includes a full-scale model of long-term chronological dispatching, as well as dynamic parameters and operational reserves.
Uzbekistan will need to add flexible generating capacity that would balance the network by generating electricity in accordance with netload, which means very rapid increases and decreases in output power while maintaining high energy efficiency, as well as an unlimited number of starts and stops. These are the characteristics that Wärtsilä’s internal combustion engine technology offers.
Wärtsilä power plants with a capacity of 10–600 MW can be built in less than a year. They consume very little water, work on low-pressure gas, with the possibility of using diesel fuel as a backup, and work equally effectively in any climatic conditions, which means that they can be placed near the centers of demand. Wärtsilä technology can be used to perform many different functions, it maintains the stability of the power grid and allows countries to integrate renewable energy sources to achieve or even exceed their goals. The proposed flexibility also means that solutions can adapt to changing circumstances, and therefore can be described as “future-oriented”.
The Smart Energy Future Workshop was organized by Wärtsilä Corporation and its local partner Smart Asia Labs LLC with the support of the Ambassador of Finland and is held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Tashkent on 22 May 2019. This event looked at the fundamental transition in the energy sector and the modernization of the energy system that is occurring throughout the world, and how this affects the local energy systems.
During the event, Wärtsilä experts exchanged detailed information on the proposed technology with specialists from the Ministry of Energy and Uzbekenergo. Thanks to the knowledge of current global energy trends, the role of flexibility in energy systems and how Wärtsilä technology is used in other countries, Uzbekistan will be ready to pave its own way to an affordable, reliable and environmentally friendly energy system.
