1.85 BLN KILOWATT/HOUR ELECTRICITY PRODUCED IN FIRST QUARTER

Armenpress

YEREVAN, MAY 5, ARMENPRESS: Armenian power generating facilities produced
1.847.6 billion kilowatt/hours of electricity in the first quarter of the
year, a six percent rise over the same period of time in 2004.
Electricity production was 1 percent higher at Metsamor nuclear power
plant, 51.5 percent higher at thermal power plants, but 34,4 percent lower
at hydro power plants. The Metsamor plant produced 790 kilowatt/hour of
electricity, which made 43 percent of all produced electricity, thermal
power plants produced 754.7 million kilowatt/hour or 41 percent and hydro
power plants produced 302.9 million kilowatt/hour or 16.4 percent.