“Our partnership with Azerbaijan and our cooperation on the Southern Gas Corridor were essential in our efforts to diversify our gas supply and to reduce our resilience on Russian gas,” said Dan Jørgensen, European Commissioner for Energy and Housing, as he addressed the 11th Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council Ministerial Meeting and the 3rd Green Energy Advisory Council Ministerial Meeting.
“In the coming years, we expect pipeline gas from Azerbaijan to play an important role in the EU energy system during our transition to net zero. In this sense, we welcome efforts to expand trading capacity. The Southern Gas Corridor Advisory Council is an important part of such efforts to oversee the operation of the corridor, to tackle methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, and to promote energy efficiency, renewable deployment, and electricity grid development. But our work is not just about meeting the challenges of today. It is about charting a path towards our future. And that is why we are working to establish a green energy corridor between the South Caucasus and the European Union. There are various concrete ideas using different technologies and different routes. It remains to be seen how the most promising ideas could combine and develop into a proper green energy corridor. There is enormous potential for a good spirit of cooperation and high interests from all sides,” Dan Jørgensen emphasized.
