(CONSULTING SERVICES – Individual Consultant Selection) COUNTRY: Uzbekistan NAME OF PROJECT: Electricity Sector Transformation and Resilient Transmission (ESTART) Project TB0B5948-UZ Assignment Title: Engagement of an Individual consultant in Electrical Engineering under the Electricity Sector Transformation and Resilient Transmission (ESTART) Project Reference No.: ESTART/ICS/2025-2 I Background 1. The Government of Uzbekistan (GoU) has initiated ambitious energy sector reforms that envisage introducing competitive market principles in the sector management and operations. GoU has prepared and approved an Electricity Sector Reform Implementation Plan, which outlines the priority power sector reform actions, their sequence and timeline, required resources for the effective corporatization and commercialization of the newly unbundled electricity companies, and key areas of electricity sector reform for IFI support. 2. According to the sector reform plans, JSC National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan (NEGU) will be maintained as the government-owned central utility responsible for planning, designing, developing, operating, and maintaining the power transmission system in Uzbekistan. The company will also be the operational backbone of a new electricity market to be put in place in Uzbekistan. Further, with the rapid expansion of the power system in Uzbekistan, including large-scale Renewable Energy (RE) and gas-fired projects promoted and financed by the private sector, investments in modernization, expansion and digitalization of the aged transmission infrastructure will also need to be accelerated to keep pace with power generation expansion and growing electricity demand to ensure secured, reliable, and affordable electricity supply to households, businesses, and industries. Modern digital technologies shall be therefore embedded in transformation of the power grid infrastructure and commercialization of the transmission company. 3. The GoU has also initiated transmis

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