Industry body WindEurope plans to help COP29 host Azerbaijan boost deployment of onshore and offshore wind through a recently signed memorandum of understanding.
WindEurope and the Azerbaijan Renewable Energy Agency – part of the Baku government – plan to cooperate on a number of measures to increase wind power in Azerbaijan and the wider Caspian Sea area.
They plan to work together to establish criteria for wind power auctions, simplify permitting processes for new wind farms, and exchange best practices and knowledge for deploying wind farms and electricity grid interconnectors.
Azerbaijan – which is due to host the COP29 climate conference in November – wants to export much of its wind power to Europe via a Caspian-EU green energy corridor. It has already signed a memorandum of understanding with Georgia, Romania and Hungary for a subsea cable under the Black Sea.
Azerbaijan also wants renewables to account for 30% of the country’s total installed electricity capacity by 2030 – which is roughly double the share as of 2023, according to the International Energy Agency.
Developers Masdar and ACWA Power have unveiled gigawatt-scale wind farm plans for Azerbaijan, while the country’s state oil firm is planning a floating wind pilot project in the Caspian Sea.
Azerbaijan has 112MW of operational onshore wind capacity, according to “uåX˜äŠÊ˜·³Ç Intelligence, the research and data division of “uåX˜äŠÊ˜·³Ç.
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