Türkiye, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Bulgaria Sign Cross-Border Clean Electricity Cooperation Agreement

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On November 10, the governments of Türkiye, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Bulgaria signed a strategic clean energy cooperation agreement during the 31st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Antalya, Türkiye. The agreement plans to establish a cross-border green electricity transmission corridor running from Azerbaijan through Georgia and Türkiye to Bulgaria, delivering renewable energy from the Caspian region to European markets via the South Caucasus and Türkiye. The agreement covers cross-border transmission, distribution, electricity trading and grid interconnection, elevating what had been sector-level cooperation among the four countries to the intergovernmental level.

The agreement was signed by the heads of the four countries' energy authorities: Alparslan Bayraktar, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Türkiye; Parviz Shahbazov, Minister of Energy of Azerbaijan; Mariam Kvrivishvili, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia; and Eva Petrova, Minister of Energy of Bulgaria. Under the arrangement, the four countries will designate their respective transmission system operators to participate in forming a joint venture responsible for the development and implementation of the Green Energy Corridor project, and to study the expansion of existing cross-border electricity interconnection facilities and the construction of new transmission lines.

Regarding the planned transmission capacity, Georgian media reported a project target of 2,000–3,000 MW. Power sources include not only renewable energy such as wind and solar from Azerbaijan, but the corridor will also provide a transmission route for clean electricity from Georgia and the surrounding Caspian region to enter the Turkish and European markets. The project will also include fiber-optic communication and data transmission facilities for information exchange between power systems and energy service support.

This agreement is not a new project launched from scratch. The energy ministries of the four countries held their first ministerial meeting in Istanbul in November 2024, signed a memorandum of understanding on green electricity transmission and trade cooperation in Baku in April 2025, and held a third ministerial meeting in Istanbul in May 2026, where they discussed the establishment of a four-country joint venture. The intergovernmental agreement signed on November 10 further clarifies the framework for cross-border transmission, electricity trading and infrastructure collaboration.