ABSTRACT
Using preliminary findings provided in the previous chapter (derived from extensive legislative analysis, which includes secondary data and media sources), the current chapter aims to verify the results of local discourse analysis by conducting extended expert interviews in Uzbekistan during August and September 2016 and February and March 2017. The results show that there is a gap between the intentions announced by policy makers and the actual actions that accompany those intentions within the given period of study. Then, based on the data derived from expert interviews, a new classification of barriers to renewable energy source deployment – barriers that are applicable to the case of Uzbekistan – was developed.
