Armenia and Azerbaijan discuss power line routing under TRIPP in Goris
Representatives of the relevant Armenian and Azerbaijani agencies held a technical meeting in Goris on October 8 on the routing of power transmission lines under the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) project.
According to Armenia’s Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure, the sides discussed technical issues related to the placement of power lines and exchanged views on the matter. Particular attention was paid to coordination between the agencies and next steps to move the work forward.
On October 5, Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Davit Khudatyan received a delegation led by Mustafa Pustu, chairman and general manager of Turkey’s electricity transmission company TEİAŞ. They discussed work to restore and launch the Gyumri-Kars power line as part of the Armenia-Turkey normalization process, and stressed the importance of interconnecting the two countries’ power systems for both bilateral and regional cooperation. The delegation also met the management of Electric Power System Operator CJSC and High Voltage Electric Networks CJSC.
Regional integration was also discussed on September 24 in Tbilisi at the 9th World Forum on Energy Regulation (WFER IX). Mesrop Mesropyan, chairman of Armenia’s Public Services Regulatory Commission, met Pedro Verdelho, president of the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER), and representatives of the EU4Energy programme, joined by the heads of the Georgian (GNERC) and Azerbaijani (AERA) regulators, Davit Narmania and Samir Akhundov. They discussed integrating the power systems of the South Caucasus countries and possible steps to connect them to Turkey’s grid. Mesropyan also highlighted support for drafting the secondary legislation needed to build energy storage facilities.
