CASAREM- Talimarjan Power and Transmission Project

Client: ADB, Asian Development Bank.

The Talimarjan Clean Power Project (the Project) is a power generation and transmission project undertaken by Uzbekenergo (UE) to install an additional 800 MW of generation capacity in the South region of Uzbekistan to accommodate the domestic and cross-border power demands. The power generation adopts energy saving and clean energy technology that would attempt to reduce carbon emission as a mitigation measure to climate change.

The economic viability of the Project was examined based on the ADB Guidelines for Economic Analysis of Projects. The Project takes a least cost approach to address the impending need to increase the available power capacity in the country. The comparison between with- and without- project scenarios assumes the "without" case where the Government continues to rely on old and inefficient power plants for power generation, resulting in surmounting unmet demands, especially in the South region of the country.

Services provided by ITAC were:

Energy Sector Overview, Determining the linkages between electricity demand growth, economic growth and poverty reduction
Economic analysis of the proposed Investment component and economic viability assessment.
Economic cost-benefit analysis.
Co-ordination of the team Project to obtain an eligible Project under CDM.
Study for the improvement and empowerment of the regional service companies.
Evaluation of the, direct and indirect, environmental impacts of the proposed Project and carry out economic analysis of these impacts.
Spread sheet model development for the analysis of different components.