NEW HYDROPOWER PLANT TO BE BUILT ON SHORE OF LAKE PARVANA

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 04 2007

AKHALKALAK, JUNE 4, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. In late
May the Georgian government and Georgian Urban Energy company
(Turkey) signed an agreement on construction of a new hydropower
plant in Samtskhe-Javakhk near Lake Parvana, NT was informed from
A-Info news agency. Under the agreement, the capacity of the new
hydropower plant will make 70-80 mwt, its construction will start
in 2007 and be completed in four years. The Turkish side assumed
an obligation to allocate more than 100 million dollars for the
project’s implementation.

According to the Georgian prime minister Zurab Noghaideli, the
electricity generated by the Parvana hydropower plant will fully
supply Georgia with electricity in winter, while in summer part of
it will be sold to Turkey.