Turkey plans power corridor to carry Azerbaijani electricity to Europe

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Turkey is working with Azerbaijan, Georgia and Bulgaria on a regional electricity corridor that would carry power from the Caucasus through Turkey to Europe, expanding an energy partnership built on oil and gas pipelines into the electricity trade, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Monday.

The project would expand energy cooperation between Turkey and Azerbaijan beyond oil and natural gas into electricity trade and green energy infrastructure.

Speaking at the Baku Energy Forum, part of Baku Energy Week, Bayraktar said Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bulgaria and other regional countries were working to deepen electricity interconnections and develop a wider regional power network.

“We are going to create the electricity version of TANAP” he said, referring to the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline that carries Azerbaijani gas through Turkey to Europe.

Turkey and Azerbaijan have a longstanding energy partnership built on major oil and gas pipelines. Turkey has been seeking to strengthen cross-border electricity interconnections as renewable and nuclear capacity grows, while regional countries in southeast Europe and the Caucasus move to improve energy security through closer electricity integration.

Source: JAM News