Electric power facilities that Azerbaijan will create for 1-1.5 years will save hundreds of millions of cubic meters of natural gas for export. This was stated by President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev at the 9th ministerial meeting as part of the advisory council on the southern gas corridor and the 1st ministerial meeting as part of the advisory council in green energy.
“Today, together with our Masdar and Acwa Power investors, we will jointly implement in Azerbaijan two investment and wind energy production projects with a total capacity of 470 megavatts. Another project that is already under development with BP and the implementation of which will begin soon In the liberated territories of the Dzhebrail district, this is a project with a capacity of 240 megavatts. In total, it will be 710 megawatts. And if everything goes in accordance with our plans, then within 1-1.5 years we will have such a power, and this will allow us to allow us Save hundreds of millions of cubic meters of natural gas for export, ”said Aliyev.
The head of state also noted that Azerbaijan has the potential for the development of green energy: “Azerbaijan also has the potential for the development of green energy. This has already been confirmed. Only the potential of wind energy at sea is 157 GW, the volume of wind and solar energy on land – 27 GWs also up to 10 GW of wind and solar energy in the territories that we released more than two years ago as a result of the Patriotic War. We also discovered great potential in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. Now there is a process of negotiations on assessing the possibility of building a solar power station with a capacity of 500-megavatts And I think that we will have even more capacities, ”the president said.