Azerbaijan could become power exporter
Azerbaijan can export eight to ten billion kilowatt / hours of electricity annually in the future, the department head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Industry and Energy Tahir Jafarov has said at a conference on 'Energy Efficiency: Economic and institutional aspects and perspectives'.
"The potential for the electricity export of Azerbaijan to Europe will amount to 650-1200 megawatts," Jafarov said.
Jafarov said, at present, the power grid capacity of Azerbaijan is 6400 megawatts. About five billion cubic meters of gas are directed to electricity production of the country every year.