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Wind power puts Azerbaijan on map of global renewables [OPINION]

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13.07.2025

A quiet revolution is blowing through Azerbaijan’s energy landscape, and it’s coming from the wind!

In August, Saudi energy company ACWA Power will start commissioning Azerbaijan's biggest wind power plant: the Khizi-Absheron wind farm, a 240 MW renewable energy project that's set to be completed by the end of 2025. The project is spread out among the villages of Chayli and Sitalchay in the Absheron and Khizi regions, and will feature 37 wind turbines—12 in Absheron, 25 in Khizi—and is projected to produce approximately 907 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. That's enough to power more than 300,000 Azerbaijani homes, all with clean, renewable wind.

This is not only a technical success—it is a strategic one. The Khizi-Absheron wind power plant is a 1.073 billion Saudi riyal, or approximately 486 million Azerbaijani manat........

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