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    Azerbaijan’s SOCAR Green sets sights on implementing pilot hybrid project

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    Azerbaijan's SOCAR Green sets sights on implementing pilot hybrid project

    BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 11. SOCAR Green
    plans to implement a pilot hybrid project, Elmir Musayev, General
    Director of SOCAR Green, a subsidiary of the State Oil Company of
    Azerbaijan (SOCAR), said on the second day of the 2nd International
    Conference for Water Management – Baku Water Week, held in Baku,
    Trend reports.

    He said that a comprehensive work will be carried out in this
    direction, which will lead to significant energy efficiency.

    “This will also ensure water efficiency thanks to energy
    efficiency, efficient equipment to be applied and new
    technologies.

    For example, if we simply apply variable frequency control
    devices to water pumps, they will regulate water use in accordance
    with demand and reduce or completely eliminate excess energy
    consumption. This solution will also save water, because excess
    water will not be used unnecessarily,” he explained.

    Musayev noted that, in addition, a letter of intent was signed
    yesterday with the State Water Resources Agency (ADSEA), which is
    also part of the agency’s decarbonization initiative.

    “As announced, we plan to implement a pilot hybrid project. This
    project will include onshore wind energy, floating or fixed solar
    panels on the water, and a battery energy storage system. Here, the
    agency will act as a buyer of electricity, which will directly
    contribute to the decarbonization of the agency and our
    organization.

    We have already started the technical review stage and are quite
    optimistic. We hope that this will be just the beginning of our
    future journey.

    We believe and are confident that this project will be
    successful. After this pilot project proves successful, we will
    partner with ADSEA. I emphasize the word partnership because it
    should be mutually beneficial – both ADSEA should benefit from it
    and we should benefit. After this experiment is successful, I
    believe that we can transfer this knowledge and experience to the
    wider region.

    Simply by applying new technology with proper management and
    analysis, we can achieve very good results. We think that after
    completing this pilot project, we can apply it to other enterprises
    in Azerbaijan, and at the same time, we can apply this approach to
    Central Asian countries and neighboring countries,” Musayev

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