President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has announced the preparation of 128 new oil and gas investment blocks carrying estimated reserves of 5.8 trillion cubic metres of gas and 560 million tonnes of liquid hydrocarbons, while setting a deadline of end-2027 for transferring the country’s entire propane supply network to private operators.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has announced 12 localization projects worth $850 million targeting energy storage control modules, wind turbine components and high-voltage equipment, alongside a new specialized industrial zone in the Farish district of Jizzakh to supply the country’s planned nuclear power plant.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has announced that private operators will be invited to manage electricity distribution networks in the Jizzakh and Tashkent regions, scaling up a model piloted in Samarkand where Turkish company Aksa Enerji holds a 30-year management contract requiring at least $350 million in investment over its first decade.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has announced a National General Plan for the energy sector through 2050, shifting away from a model that let investors choose project locations and toward centrally planned, competitively tendered capacity with pre-defined grid connections — with the first tender covering 2.2 GW of solar and wind power due shortly.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has signed six major energy project agreements totalling $4.7 billion and declared that reducing losses in the electricity grid will now be a central investment priority alongside launching new generation capacity.
The Ministry of Economy and Finance has proposed linking centralized heating tariff increases to annual inflation starting May 1, 2028, with a hard ceiling of 10% per year — mirroring a mechanism already applied to electricity and gas since early 2026.
The US dollar climbed above 12,000 sums on October 15 for the first time since late July, closing at 12,011.65 sums after an eight-day consecutive rally that reversed a prolonged decline stretching back to a three-year low recorded in September.
Household liquefied gas prices are proposed to more than double to 5,000 soums per kilogram from November 1, 2026, under a plan that would also introduce a targeted 158 billion soum compensation scheme to shield families on the Social Protection Register from the full impact of the increase.
A federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to resume the Diversity Visa lottery, setting a registration window opening no later than November 1 and results by December 3, after a legal challenge by immigration law firm Red Eagle Law.
Average monthly electricity consumption per household fell from 212 kWh in 2023 to 184 kWh in 2025, while gas use dropped from 431 to 342 cubic metres over the same period, the Ministry of Economy and Finance reported on October 14.
