SOCAR and “Uniper” discuss gas and green energy cooperation

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has been invited to the BRICS summit in October, which will be held in Kazan, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey Ryabkov told reporters, TASS reports. "We support Azerbaijan's application. We believe that it is a strong candidate that, if it joins BRICS, will undoubtedly bring additional dynamism," Ryabkov said. It should be noted that on August 20, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ayhan Hajiyev stated that Azerbaijan had officially applied to join BRICS. This news was also posted on BRICS’s official “X” (formerly Twitter) account. On August 21, Vladimir Jabarov, the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, mentioned that Azerbaijan's official application to join BRICS could be considered at the summit in Kazan. BRICS is an intergovernmental organization founded in 2006, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.

In the coming weeks and months, meetings on COP29 at technical and political levels will intensify, said EU Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra. The Commissioner noted that at COP29, ministers and leaders should:

The first components of next-generation wind turbines, brought to Azerbaijan by ACWA Power, have been delivered to the Baku Shipyard. According to the press service of the Baku Shipyard, the wind turbine components will be unloaded at the Baku Shipyard’s temporary storage site and then transported for the installation of the Khizi-Abseron wind farm with a capacity of 240 MW, which will be built in Azerbaijan in the next phase. It should be noted that construction work on the Khizi-Abseron wind farm project began at the end of 2022.

On August 27, Azerbaijan's Deputy Minister of Energy, Elnur Soltanov, discussed energy transition issues and other topics of cooperation with a delegation from the German company Uniper. According to the press service of the Ministry of Energy of Azerbaijan, Soltanov expressed satisfaction with the existing cooperation with the German company. In addition, issues of gas supply, EU energy security, supply diversification, energy efficiency, energy transition, and renewable energy sources were discussed, the Ministry of Energy noted. The parties also discussed the potential for cooperation in green energy (its production and export) and upcoming events in Baku as part of COP29.