ARMENIA’S ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION MAY GROW BY 10 PERCENT TO 8.1 BILLION KWH
YEREVAN, November 15. / ARKA /. Electricity production in Armenia by
yearned may grow by 10.2% compared to 2011 to some 8.1 billion KWh,
energy and natural resources minister Armen Movsisyan said today.
Speaking at a Cabinet session he said last year Armenia’s power
generating facilities produced
A total of 7.4 billion kWh of electricity. According to the minister,
domestic power consumption is expected to be 6 billion kWh, and given
the fact that last year it was 5.6 billion kWh, the growth this year
could reach 6.5%. He said electricity export this year will increase
by 0.5% to 1.8 billion kWh. Movsisyan also reported that in the first
nine months of 2012 power production increased by 8% compared to the
same period last year, amounting to 5.9 billion kWh, of which domestic
consumption was 4.4 billion kilowatt/ h ($ 1 – 407.71 drams). -0-
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