Shukhrat Botirov, a design engineer, Candidate of Technical Sciences and lecturer at the National University of Uzbekistan, argues in an article published on 10 August 2021 on Yuz.uz, the news site of the Yangi O‘zbekiston and Pravda Vostoka newspapers, that geothermal energy could take one of the leading places among Uzbekistan’s renewable sources.
He writes that geothermal water occurs in almost all regions, the warmest in Bukhara and Syrdarya regions, and names the Amu Darya basin, the southern Aral area, the Kyzylkum and the Chust–Adrasman anomaly in the Fergana Valley as promising for petrothermal resources, with granitoid masses at 4–6 km.
Artesian basins in the plains and foothill troughs contain water of 50–100 °C at depths of 3–4 km, he writes, but the technical potential has not been determined because detailed studies have not been done.
He cites the 2017 presidential resolution on a programme of measures for renewable energy and the 2019 law on renewable energy sources, and calls for moving from theory to practice.
