Armenia, Georgia has great potential in energy cooperation – Kaladze
YEREVAN, August 23. /ARKA/. Armenia and Georgia has great potential to
expand their cooperation in energy sector and intend to fulfill it,
Georgian minister of energy and vice-premier Kahka Kaladze said in
Yerevan.
After his meeting with the Armenian minister of energy Yervand
Zahkaryan on Friday Kaladze thanked Armenian colleagues for
cooperation and stressed the importance of energy ties between the
countries.
Zakharyan, in his turn, said the priority task is to increase volumes
of energy supplies between Armenia and Georgia. Under the respective
program, the new high-voltage line of 400 kilovolt is to bring today’s
capacity of 200 megawatt up to 700 megawatt
Armenian minister of energy stressed the importance of energy
cooperation in emergency cases and expressed gratitude to Georgia for
assistance in gas trunk breakdown repairs.
The report says Armenia, in her turn, gave a helping hand to Georgia
in a recent energy supply interruption.
Earlier, the deputy minister of energy of Armenia Yosif Isayan said
the new high-voltage line to Georgia to be commissioned by 2018 will
cost 330 million euros, of them 300 million will be spent on works in
Armenia and 30 million in the territory of Georgia. -0–