The former head of Jambay District’s ecology department has been sentenced to five years in prison for accepting an 11-million-soum computer in exchange for shelving an illegal tree-felling case and releasing an impounded truck.
Cabinet Resolution No. 585, signed on 21 October 2026, sets out a graduated financial penalty system for firms that over-abstract water or operate without contracts and permits, effective from 2027.
Six energy agreements worth US$4.7 billion were signed at an investor dialogue chaired by President Mirziyoyev, adding 3,000 MW of generation and 400 MW of storage capacity. A new Investors’ Council will be chaired by Presidential Administration head Saida Mirziyoyeva, while tenders for a further 2,200 MW of solar and wind capacity are imminent.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has signed two grant agreements totaling USD 1.1 million with Azerbaijan to fund early-stage feasibility work on the Caspian Green Energy Corridor, a cross-border project that would connect Uzbekistan’s power grid to Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan through a proposed 400-kilometre submarine electricity cable.
A large-scale study completed in Nukus on 7 May 2025 has produced two new analytical tools for monitoring dust migration across the Southern Aral Sea region and, for the first time, quantified in digital terms how vegetation cover on the drained sea bed reduces salt removal.
Six major energy projects worth $4.7 billion were signed at a meeting chaired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who also ordered the preparation of the country’s first National Energy Master Plan through 2050 and announced a new Investors Council to cut bureaucratic delays.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has announced a National General Plan for the energy sector through 2050, shifting away from a model that let investors choose project locations and toward centrally planned, competitively tendered capacity with pre-defined grid connections — with the first tender covering 2.2 GW of solar and wind power due shortly.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has signed six major energy project agreements totalling $4.7 billion and declared that reducing losses in the electricity grid will now be a central investment priority alongside launching new generation capacity.
