Uzbek $6B SAF project gets presidential backing
In Uzbekistan, Allied Biofuels FE LLC and the Khorezm Region Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan have executed a binding Project Implementation Agreement (PIA), marking a historic turning point in the development of Central Asia’s most consequential clean energy undertaking. The signing of the PIA constitutes a formal and irrevocable commitment by both parties to advance a project of extraordinary strategic, industrial, and environmental significance for the region and the world.
The PIA is underpinned by a Presidential Decree of the Republic of Uzbekistan, granted in direct recognition of the project’s national significance. By virtue of that Decree, the project has been accorded Special Economic Zone treatment, providing tax exemptions and a comprehensive customs incentive framework in accordance with the sovereign legislation of the Republic. This extraordinary long-term fiscal commitment by the highest levels of the Uzbek state provides an unequivocal foundation of stability and certainty as the project advances through its successive development phases.
The project entails the development and operation of Central Asia’s first – and the world’s most ambitious – integrated biofuel refinery, purpose-built to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), electro-synthetic SAF (e-SAF), and Green Diesel at industrial scale. At full capacity, the facility is projected to yield approximately 160,400 tonnes of SAF, 257,000 tons of e-SAF, and 5,040 tons of Green Diesel annually. With a total estimated capital value of approximately $6.08 billion invested over a five-year period, the project stands as one of the largest clean energy infrastructure commitments ever undertaken in the region — a defining statement of industrial ambition and sovereign partnership.
Category: Fuels
