BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 11. The
Azerbaijan-Georgia-Türkiye-Bulgaria electricity interconnection
project will become the “TANAP of electricity,” Türkiye’s Minister
of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar said, Trend's correspondent reports
from the event.
He made the remarks at a briefing following a signing ceremony
held as part of the fifth Azerbaijan-Türkiye Energy Forum.
“This is essentially the interconnector project we are
developing between Azerbaijan, Georgia, Türkiye and Bulgaria. The
project will enable electricity generated in Azerbaijan to be
transmitted to Georgia, then to Türkiye and subsequently to
Bulgaria. This is an important green energy project that we have
started developing. We began preparing the project in 2024, when
COP29 was held in Baku,” Bayraktar said.
According to him, the main goal of the project is to connect the
electricity systems of the four countries. “We want to start by
using the existing infrastructure. There is currently an
operational 700-megawatt electricity interconnection between
Türkiye and Georgia. There is also an electricity interconnection
between Bulgaria and Türkiye. We are currently also working on the
Nakhchivan-Türkiye electricity interconnection. Azerbaijan also has
an electricity interconnection with Georgia,” the minister
said.
Bayraktar noted that the project is planned to be developed in
stages, using existing infrastructure and increasing transmission
capacity in the future. “The idea is to develop this project step
by step, use the existing infrastructure and then increase the
capacity. I think this is a very important project. If we combine
it with the agreement we signed with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, I
think it will connect the entire Turkic world,” Türkiye’s Minister
of Energy and Natural Resources added.
