The figures came in a company statement to APA-Economics on Friday. The Jabrayil to Aghband section runs 74 km as a double-circuit 330 kV line on 296 anchor and intermediate towers, each averaging more than 30 tonnes and standing nearly 45 m. AzerEnergy calls it one of the largest energy projects in the country's history, built to integrate Nakhchivan fully into Azerbaijan's unified energy system.
The next phases, in the company's own sequence: 100 km from Ordubad to Nakhchivan, 230 km from Nakhchivan to Turkey, and a 44 km line through what the statement calls the Zangezur corridor. That last segment crosses Armenian territory, the Syunik strip where the TRIPP framework assigns the US side 74% for 49 years, and it is the only link with neither a start date nor an agreement behind it.
Aghband is where the built line ends and the argument begins. A wire that stops at the border transmits nothing. The 97% is a wager that finishing the approach will make the gap look like the anomaly. The sequence copies the railway: Aliyev said on 11 August that the rail line will reach the Armenian border next year, that the power-line project through Armenia "is ready", and that pylon sites had been "identified" by Azerbaijani specialists, surveying already claimed for ground where no agreement exists.
Yerevan's public answers have put a price on the wire. In parliament, Arman Yeghoyan called energy trade with Baku a trade like any other; Narek Karapetyan's version was blunter: "they should pay us." Pashinyan has said Metsamor's operating horizon is "established... nothing new", promised full energy independence built on solar and storage, and declined to rule out Azerbaijani electricity.
“The 97% is a wager that finishing the approach will make the gap look like the anomaly.”
The calendar puts the legal question behind the physical one. TRIPP's ratification package reaches Armenia's Constitutional Court on 15 September, in written procedure; parliament cannot take it up before the court finishes. At the pace AzerEnergy reports, the towers will be standing at Aghband first.
Aliyev has already attached the offer to Armenia's own grid: Metsamor is "outdated", its operation "cannot be extended indefinitely", and Azerbaijani supply would stabilise the system. 1,000 MW parked at the border keeps that argument live. What changes next is the price of waiting: every month the missing 44 km stay unbuilt, they become more expensive for Yerevan to refuse and cheaper for Baku to wait out.