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Tajikistan: Reconnection to the Central Asian Power System Project

ADB, through the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program, actively promotes regional power trading among central Asian countries and the expansion of power exports to Afghanistan and Pakistan from the region. An interconnected power system in central Asia will benefit all countries, optimize power use, enhance regional energy efficiency, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. […]

ADB Signs MOU with AIIB, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan to Support Feasibility Study for Caspian Green Energy Corridor

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN (5 April 2025) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and the energy ministries of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support the Feasibility Study for the Caspian Green Energy Corridor Project. The initiative is part of ADB’s regional technical assistance for the project.

EBRD finances the largest battery energy storage system in Central Asia

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is contributing to Uzbekistan’s objective of developing up to 25 GW of solar and wind capacity by 2030, by organising a facility of up to US$ 229.4 million for the development, design, construction and operation of a 500 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) and a 200 MW solar photovoltaic power plant in the country’s Tashkent region.

Additional ADB Grant to Strengthen Energy Security in Central Asia

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved additional grant financing of $15 million to help Tajikistan scale up an ongoing project to reconnect the country’s power system to the Central Asian Power System (CAPS) through interconnections with neighboring Uzbekistan.

$21 Million ADB Grant to Expand Clean Energy Supply in Tajikistan

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $21 million grant as additional financing to expand the supply of renewable energy in Tajikistan by further modernizing the Golovnaya hydropower plant.

Five Things to Know About the Future of Energy in Central Asia

Solar Power Provides a Lifeline to Afghanistan’s Hospitals

In Afghanistan's Herat province, medical facilities have done their best to cope with the influx of COVID-19 patients, but power outages have made it challenging to provide adequate treatment.

Central Asia: The first economic contraction in a quarter century

For the Central Asia region, which is so commodity and remittance dependent, economic output will likely contract by 1.7% in 2020 , according to the latest Economic Update for Europe and Central Asia.

A new era of clean energy cooperation along the old Silk Road

The ancient web of connections that once made the Silk Road indispensable to world trade are making a comeback. Largely unnoticed, countries in Central Asia and South Asia are starting to implement a vision of working together on something just as vital to their economies – energy sharing.

The response to COVID-19 should also be a response to the climate crisis

Now is the time to ramp up actions on resilience so that society can beat the COVID-19 crisis while reducing the impact of climate threats.