Regional Initiative Approved by WTDC-10: Provision of a Stable Electric Power Supply for Telecommunication / ICT Facilities in Rural and Remote Areas

The project was implemented by the ITU, which purchased equipment for the hybrid power plant, in cooperation with Uzbektelecom, which covered costs for design and construction of the plant, as well as for installation of the equipment and put of the plant into operation.

Uzbekistan specialists selected telecommunications facility Zambar, belonging to Uzbektelecom, with instable power supply. In the facility, there are radio and television stations, radio relay station, base stations of national communication provider Uzmobile, intermediate centre of transport optical communication network, which provides connection of digital telecommunication lines Kuytosh, Kanli, Dashtabod, and Bulungur. After capacity rating of necessary solar panels, wind generator, diesel generator, contollers and invertor, Uzbekistgan specialists provided ITU with technical specification of the necessary equipment,  including required capacities.

Special equipment was purchased in 2014 and all necessary works on installation of the equipment and put it into operation were completed in 2015.

Mr. Brahima Sanou, BDT Director, during his official visit to Uzbekistan in September 2015 , visited Uzbektelecom branch in the city of Samarkand and took part in a videoconference between the Samarkand branch and the facility Zambar.