Azerbaijan’s broader commitment to green energy provides the policy backbone for initiatives like AFEZ. Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov recently underlined the scale of progress in the country’s energy sector, noting in Azerbaijan newspaper that:
“With the commissioning of new power plants, the total electricity generation capacity of our country has now reached 9,732.5 MW – an increase of 1,317 MW, or 15.6 percent, compared to the same period last year.”