Georgia Requests More Electricity From Armenia

GEORGIA REQUESTS MORE ELECTRICITY FROM ARMENIA

ArmenPress
28 Oct. 2004

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 28, ARMENPRESS: Georgia’s energy ministry said
Wednesday evening that it has asked the Russian-Armenian HayRusGazArd
venture to increase by 100 megawatt the volume of electricity, it
exports to Georgia through Armenia-located Alaverdi electricity lines.

A spokeswoman for HayRusGazArd, Shushan Sardarian, told Armenpress
that the Georgian United Distributing Energy Company signed a contract
with HayRusGazArd on October 14 for purchase of 500,000 kilowatt of
electricity daily at 2.5 US cents per one kilowatt/h. The contract
is valid until 2005 march 1.

Another Armenian company, the International Energy Corporation,
sells electricity to Georgian Telasi company at 2.6 US cents.