EU-Azerbaijan Energy Partnership Goes Beyond Gas Jean-Michel Brun
Date
7/20/2022 2:08:53 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 20. The EU-Azerbaijan
energy partnership goes well beyond gas, Chief Executive Director
of Lagazetteaz.fr newspaper, founded by Trend News Agency in
France, Jean-Michel Brun told Trend.
He pointed out that the EU and Azerbaijan share the ambition to
accelerate the development and deployment of renewable energy
production and transmission capacities.
“Azerbaijan has tremendous potential in terms of renewable
energies, particularly in the offshore energy sector, which Europe
may also need to secure its energy needs,” Brun believes.
Touching upon the memorandum of understanding signed July 18
between the European Commission and Azerbaijan to double in a few
years EU imports of natural gas from Azerbaijan, Brun noted that
Azerbaijani gas will help Europeans get rid of their dependence on
a single supplier.
Remember that the EU was importing 40 percent of its the gas
annual needs. European sanctions against Russia risk pushing it to
cut off European supplies, which naturally is a huge issue for
Europe as winter approaches. Naturally, EU will also need to import
gas from other countries such as the United States, Qatar, Norway,
or Algeria. Europe's energy independence from a single supplier
will take time, and Europe will have to make savings anyway to get
through the winter without disruption. Europe needs, for its energy
security, to deal with more reliable suppliers and Azerbaijan is
one of them,” he said.
Brun went on to add that for Europe, the advantage of this
agreement doesn't concern only energy.
“It provides Europe with the opportunity to strengthen its
economic and political ties with this part of the world, which is
full of resources and has strong growth potential,” he
explained.
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