One more project on electricity export
12-04-2008 12:23:34 – KarabakhOpen
Currently a program of development of energy sector is being drafted,
which involves exploitation of energy resources of the major rivers of
Karabakh, construction of small water power plants, thanks to which
Karabakh may start exporting energy, said Prime Minister Ara
Harutiunyan in a consultation yesterday.
The prime minister underlined that during the drafting of the program
an issue of review of tariffs occurred but the prime minister says it
is necessary to avoid change of tariffs.
Ara Harutiunyan underlined that currently Karabakh supplies 45 percent
of its demand, and imports power from Armenia. With regard to the
national energy company, Artsakh Energy, Ara Harutiunyan said the
company not only did not foster but also hindered the development of
the energy sector, sustaining major losses. The head of state urged to
reduce power loss. He said this year the sector generated 12 percent
more profit but it is not a limit.
Losses of power in Stepanakert and Hadrut were reduced, unlike
Kashatagh, Martakert and Shahumyan where the people in charge received
a warning.
The head of the electricity board of Kashatagh says electricity bills
60 kWh of which is subsidized by the government are not paid. The prime
minister proposed reviewing the mechanism of subsidizing. Loss of power
in the region is 52 percent compared with 72 percent in the same period
of last year. However, it is not enough. In Martakert the loss of power
is 23.6 percent, in Shahumyan 38.6 percent.
The prime minister said the heads of the regional offices of Artsakh
Energy will be fired if the situation does not change.
Several years ago the ex-prime minister Anushavan Danielyan worked out
a program of construction of small water power plants. The program
seemed realistic but it was not brought into being. The ex-prime
minister explained that there were no investors. If the current program
also relies heavily on investors, it may end up in the same way as the
previous program.