Azerbaijan Breaks Ground on Power Line Linking the Caspian to Europe

Azerbaijan’s power transmission grid operator AzerEnergy, has begun construction of Azerbaijan’s sections of a planned line that ultimately can connect Azerbaijan and Europe via the TRIPP corridor and Turkey. The power line received a green light under the TRIPP corridor agreement signed last summer in Washington. According to AzerEnergy, work has started both on a 74-kilometer section of line inside Azerbaijan and a 105-kilometer-long section inside the country’s Nakhchivan enclave. Both lines are rated…