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Share of wind energy in Azerbaijan to grow

Oil&Gas Materials 11 December 2019 15:16 (UTC +04:00)
Share of wind energy in Azerbaijan to grow

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 11

By Anastasia Savchenko - Trend:

The share of wind energy in Azerbaijan will grow, Director of the Caspian Barrel Oil Research Center Ilham Shaban told Trend, commenting on the issue of using renewable energy sources in Azerbaijan.

Shaban also noted that wind farms, which will be gradually put into operation, are being built.

“The usage of water energy compared to wind energy is much less - about 7 percent,” the expert said. “This indicator has decreased by 5 percent over the current decade.”

Shaban emphasized that water resources in Azerbaijan are used for other needs such as land reclamation, irrigation of crops and exploitation of agricultural products.

“To carry out these acitivities, water resources from our reservoirs are needed, and hydroelectric power plants cannot use them fully, as it was before,” the expert said.

Shaban added that it is necessary to take into account the fact that increasing the pace of agricultural production requires big reserves of water resources.

“It is necessary to allocate special zones for the units operating on renewable energy sources,” the expert said. “In Europe, such zones are established in special offshore areas. This is done so that the side effects of these units, such as harmful microwaves emitted during their active operation, wouldn’t affect the living organisms around. Therefore, they are installed in territories remote from places of residence or exploited by people.”

Alternative energy sources are a renewable resource, they replace traditional energy sources operating on oil, natural gas and coal, which, when burned, emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere thus, contributing to the growth of the greenhouse effect and global warming.

The reason for the search for alternative energy sources is the need to receive energy from renewable or practically inexhaustible natural resources and phenomena. In this case, their environmental friendliness and profitability are also taken into account.

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