AzerEnerji to set up technical means in 2012 to export power to Turkey
BAKU. Nov 29 (Interfax) - JSC AzerEnerji plans by 2013 to have set up the technical means for exporting electric power to Turkey via the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey corridor, a company January-September operations report says.
"By this time, construction has been completed on the new 500-kWt overhead power line Samukh-Gardabani for entry-exit at the Samukh substation," the report says.
Reconstruction work is being done now on a 131-kilometer section of high-tension line to the country's border with Georgia.
In September of last year, Georgian State Electric System and AzerEnerji signed in Baku a memorandum concerning the further development of power connections between the two country's energy systems with the aim of creating an energy bridge with Turkey.
Georgian State Electric System and Turkish Electricity Distribution Corporation signed a memorandum of mutual understanding concerning the project Energy Bridge Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey in Tbilisi on April 8 of 2009. The document stipulates delivering to Turkey 600 mWt of electric power, of which 450 mWt will be provided by Azerbaijan and the rest by Georgia. United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide financial and technical support, along with United States Energy Association.
The Czech company Energo-Pro, which owns a number of power facilities in Georgia, began in early April to build a 220-kilovolt power line that will link the Georgian and Turkish energy systems.