Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 19
By Huseyn Veliyev - Trend:
Iranian specialists provide support for maintenance of wind stations installed in Azerbaijan, Deputy Chairman of the State Agency for Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources Jamil Melikov told Trend.
"The cooperation in this field was specified in the protocol of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation of the parties, which was signed several years ago. It is specified in the protocol that the parties are interested in assisting specialists of companies and organizations in implementation of projects on the territories of both Azerbaijan and Iran, as well as in the third countries. The joint work in this direction is currently underway," Melikov said.
Earlier, Azerbaijan and Iran created a working group to implement joint projects in the field of alternative energy.
The purposes of activity of the working group were to resolve organizational issues, propose and discuss various projects, attract investors, specialists from both sides and provide recommendations for the implementation of joint projects in Azerbaijan and Iran.
Melikov said earlier that Azerbaijan is interested in the exchange of technical data, in particular in the fields of hydropower and geothermal energy and the projects in which the Azerbaijani side is ready to take part, are related to the global energy system, the so-called transmission lines and substations, the level of voltage used for electricity transmissions.
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