Uzbekistan plans $850 million to localize energy equipment production

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held an open dialogue with fuel and energy sector investors, citing the country’s natural resources, industrial capacity and young workforce as potential for international energy partnership.

The value of local goods and services used in the sector in 2025 reached $740 million, and local producers supplied 40% of products used by China Energy for eight battery storage complexes, worth $200 million. Mirziyoyev said local output could rise three to four times and urged firms to improve price, quality and standards.

Twelve projects worth $850 million have been prepared to localize imported energy equipment. The president also announced a special industrial zone in Farish district of Jizzakh region for goods needed to build a nuclear power plant, offering tax and customs benefits to investors.