Ilhom Nimatullayev

Biography

Ilhom Nimatullayev has spent his career in power systems and energy policy — electricity networks, energy oversight, efficiency and renewable generation — first in engineering roles in the industry, then in senior positions across Uzbekistan’s energy sector and public administration.

In 2018 and 2019 he worked in the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, in the division responsible for geology, the fuel and energy complex and the chemical, petrochemical and metallurgical industries. He took part there in drafting the institutional reform of the country’s energy sector, and in establishing the Ministry of Energy.

From 2019 to 2021 he held senior positions at the Ministry of Energy, heading its department for electricity network development and its department for methodology and licensing: grid infrastructure, sector regulation, the licensing system and national energy policy. In 2021 and 2022 he was Country Energy Specialist with the Energy Charter, working on energy policy, market reform, international cooperation and the investment climate for energy.

He returned to the Cabinet of Ministers in 2022 and 2023 in a senior role covering the fuel, energy and chemical sectors, and from 2023 to 2025 led the state inspectorate supervising the use of electricity, petroleum products and gas. He has been Chief Executive Officer of Green Infrastructure Investments Group since 2025.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Navoi State Mining Institute (2011) and a master’s degree from Tashkent State Technical University (2013), specialising in mining electromechanics and the power supply of industrial enterprises and cities.

He is the author of a patented thermal energy accumulator — a Sand Battery Energy Storage System, patent UZ IAP 7754 of 14 March 2024. It converts electricity into high-temperature heat and stores it in a sand-based accumulator, for integration with renewable generation, grid flexibility and industrial heat storage.

He works in Uzbek, Russian and English.