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Uzbekistan Decarbonization Roadmap
Highlights
- Gross potential of geothermal energy in hot dry rock to 3 km: about 67,000 million tonnes of oil equivalent.
- Technical potential: only 0.3 million tonnes of oil equivalent.
- Geothermal waters in the table of renewable potential: 0.23 million toe gross, 0.0 technical.
Summary
A roadmap for decarbonising Uzbekistan’s economy, prepared by a policy dialogue group under the EGED programme. It names hydropower, solar and wind energy, bioenergy and geothermal energy as the basis of renewable energy development.
On geothermal energy, it repeats the figures used by the IEA: a huge gross potential in hot dry rock, but a small technical potential.
How to cite
Decarbonization Policy Dialogue Group (2023). Uzbekistan Decarbonization Roadmap. Effective Governance for Economic Development (EGED) programme, Tashkent. https://switch-asia.eu/resource/uzbekistan-decarbonization-roadmap