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ENERGO: UAE’s Masdar To Build Two
ASIAELEC: Pakistan Opens $1.7bn Chi- 220-MW Solar Plants In Uzbekistan
nese-Built Power Line Uzbekistan’s Energy Ministry has announced
Pakistan has opened the $1.7bn, 660-kV Mat- the signing of project agreements with Abu
iari-Lahore power line as part of government Dhabi Future Energy Co. (Masdar) for two
efforts to use Chinese money and technology to 220-MW photovoltaic (PV) solar plants in the
shore up the country’s power grid. Jizzakh and Samarkand regions.
The 878-km line forms part of the China-Pa- In May, Masdar was awarded the two
kistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and was $300mn projects after an open tender overseen
financed and built by State Grid Corporation by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
of China, which will operate it for the next 25
years.
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