Armenia’s power workers to study regional streams

Armenia’s Energy Sciences Research Institute has launched a campaign aimed at studying the Armenia-Georgia-Russia and Armenia-Iran regional energy stream projects, told Aysor’s correspondent Institute’s chief director, Levon Yeghiazarian.

The campaign has been kicked off since January 2010 and will last two years with assistance by USAID.

“The project is very interesting from professional and economical points of view and in terms of mentioned countries’ regimes and mutual-streams, especially from the point of the following turning of our 400 kW system to the energy systems of Iran and Georgia. We haven’t ever had such connections yet,” said Levon Yeghiazarian.

Armenian energy sector always had excess energy for export; Armenia even has provided Azerbaijan with electricity, according to Levon Yeghiazarian.

Some projects are on the stage of establishing with focusing on regional problems, economy and energy sectors’ development in Armenia, and the international assistance. “We also take into consideration the alternative resources’ development,” said Yeghiazarian pointing in this relation the wind power’s resources. He said that with German KFW Bank’s assistance this year the wind power’s resources would be studied. “The system is on the stage of an active development. In April the Yerevan Power Station will operate, two more hydropower stations will be build on Araks River, and there are obvious improvement trends in operation of the ‘Electric Networks of Armenia’ company,” he added.