TASHKENT, Apr 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Uzbekistan will build a hydrogen energy infrastructure, to help the nation with its transition to a green economy, the Uzbek Justice Ministry said yesterday.
The decree considers structural changes in demand for energy resources, and envisages a widespread introduction of innovative technologies, to develop hydrogen energy and renewable energy sources, the ministry said.
The National Research Institute of Renewable Energy Sources, with a research centre of hydrogen energy and a laboratory of renewable and hydrogen energy technologies, will be created under the ministry.
Uzbekistan is committed to tackling climate change and introducing eco-friendly renewable energy sources into the country’s energy mix, Uzbek Energy Minister, Alisher Sultanov, said, in a separate statement.
“Today’s (yesterday’s) decree, supporting the construction of a hydrogen energy infrastructure and further development of renewable energy sources, is a great step forward in this process,” he said.– NNN-AGENCIES
