Azerbaijan, UK firms deepen cooperation on submarine cable projects PHOTO

The Green Energy Corridor Power Company (GECO) and UK-based Xlinks have signed a memorandum of understanding, which highlights avenues for working together on underwater cable projects and associated infrastructure.

The document was signed during a meeting between Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov, UK Ambassador to Baku Fergus Auld, and representatives of GECO and Xlinks, Caliber.Az reports, citing the Azerbaijani Ministry of Energy.

GECO General Director Farhad Mammadov and Xlinks CEO James Humphrey signed the memorandum.

“The Memorandum was signed by GECO General Director Farhad Mammadov and Xlinks Executive Director James Humphrey. The document includes issues such as exploring the possibilities of cooperation between the two companies in the field of submarine cable projects and related infrastructure, exchanging information, conducting technical assessments. The Memorandum does not create legal obligations, and at present GECO is negotiating with potential partners for the period after the feasibility study of the Green Energy Corridor project,” the ministry’s statement read.

The meeting also addressed the development of energy cooperation between Azerbaijan and the United Kingdom, including long-term partnership expansion in green energy, the Caspian–Black Sea–Europe Green Energy Corridor and the introduction of new technologies.

GECO is a joint venture established by four countries to implement the Agreement on the Development and Transmission of Green Energy between Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania and Hungary.

Xlinks is a UK company specialising in large-scale renewable energy projects and long-distance power transmission. Its technical team has experience building the 720-kilometre

North Sea Link interconnector with a capacity of 1.4 GW between the UK and Norway, and the 765-kilometre Viking Link submarine cable, also 1.4 GW, between the UK and Denmark.

By Jeyhun Aghazada