ACWA Power’s wholly owned subsidiary NOMAC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Uzbekistan’s Agency for Technical Regulation to equip the Uzbek National Institute of Metrology with calibration services for measuring instruments used in renewable power plants—specifically wind and solar—in the Republic of Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic of Uzbekistan.
NOMAC Sirdarya Operation and Maintenance Services will equip a laboratory complex in the National Institute of Metrology branch in Karakalpakstan with high-precision measuring instruments and related services, it was shared, with an investment value of USD 1.7 million.
The signing ceremony took place within the framework of the ACWA Power team’s visit to Nukus to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Beruniy Wind IPP project.
The wind project includes a 200 MW wind power plant and 100 MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in the Beruniy Region of Karakalpakstan.
ACWA Power has planned to make “significant investments” in the Republic of Karakalpakstan, it said, including Kungrad 1, 2, 3, and 4 wind projects with a combined capacity of 2 GW, the 100MW Karatau Wind IPP, and the 5GW Aral Wind IPP, amounting to over USD 8.4 billion of investments.