Luna Catering, which has grown within a few years to the largest projects in the country, announces its ambition to become the benchmark for off-site catering in Central Asia by 2029 and shares its outlook on the market for the coming years.
A draft government resolution submitted for public discussion provides for a 30% increase in heating and hot water tariffs from November 1, 2026, and, from May 1, 2028, annual indexation by inflation but no more than 10%. Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance Khurshid Mustafayev explained this by a five-year freeze on tariffs in Tashkent and a fivefold gap between cost price and the price for the population.
From November 1, tariffs for heat and hot water in Uzbek cities may rise; in Tashkent a 30% increase has been proposed. Deputy Minister of Construction Ozoza Juraeva stated that apartment buildings connected to central heating cannot be disconnected from the network and switched to individual gas boilers. Unauthorized alteration of in-building pipes is prohibited by government resolution No. 194 of July 5, 2014. Also, since December 1, 2022, new apartment buildings are not connected to gas — only to electricity supply.
At a meeting between Shavkat Mirziyoyev and fuel and energy sector investors, EDF Vice President Cedric Le Bouch announced that the 1,600 MW Syrdarya-2 combined-cycle power plant will come online this winter. Also, 75% of work at the Surkhandarya thermal power plant has been completed, a memorandum on a wind power plant in Bukhara region has been signed, and interest in modernizing power grids has been declared.
