Euronews.green writes that the collaboration effort aims to supplement Europe's green power capacity with sources from outside the region. Azerbaijan, which has a considerable wind power potential at the Caspian Sea, would send the generated green electricity through Georgia to Romania and then Hungary, through a power line located beneath the Black Sea.

“If you look at the energy map of Europe over the past few months … you see that on the eastern flank essentially we are paying a very high price recently - and that’s because there is not enough diversification", said Romania’s Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja at the meeting that took place in Bucharest to launch the joint venture.

Azerbaijan’s Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov added that this would also help the region tackle the climate crisis, driving down the use of energy coming from polluting resources. Bulgaria could also join in the effort to become more energy independent itself.

The next meeting regarding this project is said to take place in Azerbaijan at a UN climate change event.