Azerbaijan has announced a partnership with UAE-based developer Masdar for 1 GW each of solar and onshore wind, with 2 GW on integrated offshore wind plus green hydrogen production – marking the first offshore wind in the Caspian Sea. This first 4 GW can potentially scale to 10 GW. This Masdar-Azerbaijan agreement also covers “measures to study and strengthen the network and implement processes for the export of electricity.” The most interesting aspect of this Azerbaijan deal is the green hydrogen production in a country which is a mid-ranking gas exporter economically and geographically close to gigantic gas exporter Russia – surely one of the last places to finally ditch natural gas in the coming decades. Other fossil fuel exporting countries…