Abu Dhabi clean energy company Masdar has signed an agreement with Uzbekistan's state power trader JSC Uzenergosotish to develop the Central Asian nation's largest standalone battery energy storage system (BESS), marking a key step in Uzbekistan's plan to expand renewable energy. Abu Dhabi clean energy company Masdar has signed an agreement with Uzbekistan's state power trader JSC Uzenergosotish to develop the Central Asian nation's largest standalone battery energy storage system (BESS), marking a key step in Uzbekistan's plan to expand renewable energy. The Nur Bukhara project is a 250 MW solar PV and 63 MW/126 MWh battery energy storage facility in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan, developed by Abu Dhabi-based Masdar and inaugurated in December 2025 as the country's first utility-scale integrated solar and storage plant. Following inauguration. The President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, His Excellency Shavkat Mirziyoyev, inaugurated the Nur Bukhara project, the country's first utility-scale integrated solar and battery project, developed by Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC (Masdar). The President also. Once operational in Q3 2028, the project will be capable of storing energy equivalent to powering approximately 1. 3 million households for two hours.
