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Farkhad

Hydro power plant in Toshkent, Uzbekistan. Approximate location 40.1924, 69.3048.

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Farkhad is a 126 MW hydro power station in Toshkent, Uzbekistan. It is operated by Uzbekenergo. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 126,144 homes (estimated). It ranks #11 of 16 Uzbekistan power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1949, it is around 77 years old — an older, legacy facility. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 7.3% of Uzbekistan's electricity; the national grid averages 1,000 gCO₂/kWh (19.4% low-carbon) (2025).

126MW installed capacity
126,144homes powered (est.)
1949commissioned (~77 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000153.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Uzbekistan

Charvak: 620 MW620CharvakKhodjikent: 165 MW165KhodjikentFarkhad: 126 MW126FarkhadGazalkent: 120 MW120GazalkentTavak: 70 MW70TavakAkkavak: 39 MW39Akkavak

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Uzbekenergo. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

13.7°Cannual mean temp
2,416heating degree-days (base 18°C)
853cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
628 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 0 °CJF: 1 °CFM: 7 °CMA: 15 °CAM: 20 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 27 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 20 °CSO: 13 °CON: 7 °CND: 2 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 2% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 49/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #3 largest hydro power plant of 6 in Uzbekistan by capacity.

Uzbekistan has 6 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 1,140 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 40.1924, 69.3048 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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