The past winter was less severe for Azerbaijan than the previous one. The affect of the energy crisis on the economy and the social life of the country was not so serious as in previous 2 years. However, the electricity was being cutoff in the houses. Even in Baku the inhabitants of the sleeping districts didn’t have light for days. Local newspapers were writing about the possibility of an energy catastrophe. It was rather difficult to avoid a social outburst forecasted by the opposition. And all this has happened in a country, which is trying to convince the world that it has innumerable resources of hydrocarbon.