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WindEurope and the Azerbaijan Renewable Vitality Company have signed an MoU to spice up wind power deployment in Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea space. This collaboration will faucet into the huge wind potential within the area, aligning with the worldwide objective of tripling renewable capability by 2030.
Azerbaijan has important potential for each onshore and offshore wind power improvement. The federal government targets renewables to represent 30% of complete electrical energy capability by 2030 and goals to export wind power to Europe by way of a Caspian-EU Inexperienced Vitality Hall. Collaborative efforts have already begun with Georgia, Romania, and Hungary for a subsea cable underneath the Black Sea.
Every new wind turbine in Europe and neighboring areas generates a median of €13m. Increasing wind farms is not going to solely inexperienced Azerbaijan’s electrical energy provide but in addition yield substantial financial advantages, offering the EU with one other dependable supply of unpolluted electrical energy.
The memorandum signed by WindEurope and the Azerbaijan Renewable Vitality Company commits to cooperation throughout varied areas:
- Establishing competitors standards, together with qualitative elements like biodiversity safety and job creation.
- Recognizing the significance of maritime spatial planning and grid improvement for offshore wind.
- Simplifying allowing processes for environment friendly wind farm improvement.
- Exploring alternatives for native and European sourcing of wind power elements.
- Sharing greatest practices and data for wind power deployment and grid interconnectors.
- Facilitating the linkage between European electrical energy off-takers and wind power generated in Azerbaijan to optimize electrical energy movement.
- Advancing the Caspian-EU Inexperienced Vitality Hall, specializing in the event of an electrical energy interconnector to attach Azerbaijan’s grid with Europe by way of Georgia, Romania, and Hungary.
WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson added, “WindEurope are honoured to signal this MoU with Azerbaijan to assist them construct out their wind, each onshore and offshore within the Caspian. It’s nice they need to construct a lot, and that they need to export the power to Europe via the deliberate Black Sea cable. It’s win-win collaboration.”
