Hydro power plant in Toshkent, Uzbekistan. Approximate location 41.5542, 69.6811.
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Tavak is a 70 MW hydro power plant in Toshkent, Uzbekistan. It is operated by Uzbekenergo. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 70k homes (estimated). It ranks #26 of 28 Uzbekistan power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1941, it is around 85 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).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000149.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100001023364; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 70 MW, Tavak is below the median hydro plant in Uzbekistan (127 MW). Hydropower converts the energy of falling or flowing water into electricity; output depends on rainfall and reservoir level, and large dams also provide grid balancing and storage.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Uzbekenergo. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean continental climate (Köppen Dsa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 12% above 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: 56/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), with thermal cycling the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #5 largest hydro power plant of 6 in Uzbekistan by capacity.
Uzbekistan has 6 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 1,187 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 41.5542, 69.6811 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Tavak is a 70 MW hydro power plant in Toshkent, Uzbekistan, commissioned in 1941.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 70,080 homes (estimated).
Tavak is operated by Uzbekenergo.
