Technical cooperation project TCRS 24449, "Renewable Energy Market Accelerator: Tajikistan, Support for the Implementation of Solar Auctions", lists the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources as client and its status as approved by the bank's technical cooperation committee. Two phases follow. Phase one is sector reform and the auction framework, "revising the existing legislative framework as needed"; phase two writes the tender documents and runs the auctions for "up to two solar PV projects with a capacity of ~200 MW each". The desk's read of the page found no sum and no donor.
Asia-Plus, which reported the page on 2 September, says the ministry applied to the bank formally. The EBRD page also carries the government's target: 1,500 to 3,000 MW of wind and solar by 2030.
An auction needs a buyer whose signature a bank will lend against.
There is a precedent. It is why the single buyer matters. In October 2024 the same ministry invited bids for a 200 MW solar plant in Sughd region, with the winner to design, finance, build and run it under a power purchase agreement with Barqi Tojik, the state power company, pv magazine reported at the time; bids were due by 12 November 2024. What became of that tender has not surfaced in the desk's reads. The EBRD brief speaks of another entity: a new market operator or single buyer.
Tajikistan had no installed solar capacity at the end of 2023 by IRENA's count. Hydropower carries the system, and when inflows fall in autumn and winter the country runs a deficit, Asia-Plus notes. On Thursday the industry minister, Sherali Kabir, named "high tariffs for energy resources, limited fuel resources and logistical difficulties" as his sector's three problems, while reporting output up 13.1% in January to July.
An auction needs a buyer whose signature a bank will lend against. Deciding who that is comes before the panels, and the EBRD's phase one is where that question sits.