Kyrgyzstan supports "green" energy corridor for exporting power to Azerbaijan

Kyrgyzstan's Minister of Energy Taalaibek Ibrayev has said that Kyrgyzstan expressed support for the initiative to create a "green" energy corridor for the delivery of energy from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to Azerbaijan via the Caspian Sea.

He noted that Kyrgyzstan is keen to participate in the project to export its own energy, Caliber.Az reports via local media. 

"We are interested because Central Asia—Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan—works as part of a unified energy ring. If a neighbouring country is connected to Azerbaijan, it opens up a big market for us to export our electricity," Ibrayev stated. 

He noted that the energy systems of the Central Asian countries have been integrated into a single network since the Soviet era and continue operating in this format today.

"That’s why we are very interested in such projects," he added.

Green energy is any energy type that is generated from natural resources, such as sunlight, wind or water. It often comes from renewable energy sources although there are some differences between renewable and green energy. 

As a source of energy, green energy often comes from renewable energy technologies such as solar energy, wind power, geothermal energy, biomass and hydroelectric power. Each of these technologies works in different ways, whether that is by taking power from the sun, as with solar panels, or using wind turbines or the flow of water to generate energy.

In order to be deemed green energy, a resource cannot produce pollution, such as is found with fossil fuels. This means that not all sources used by the renewable energy industry are green. For example, power generation that burns organic material from sustainable forests may be renewable, but it is not necessarily green, due to the CO2 produced by the burning process itself.  Green energy sources are usually naturally replenished, as opposed to fossil fuel sources like natural gas or coal, which can take millions of years to develop. Green sources also often avoid mining or drilling operations that can be damaging to eco-systems.

By Naila Huseynova