PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN ATTENDS OPENING OF NEW POWER CENTER

ARMENPRESS
Nov 02 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 2, ARMENPRESS; President Robert Kocharian
participated today in a ceremony of putting into operation the newly
built power center of the state-run Yerevan Medical University.

The center, the first of its kind in Armenia and the entire region,
is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment of the famous U.S.-based
Caterpillar company.

The center applies the so-called co-generation method and has the
capacity of generating 4 megawatt/hour electricity a day. It has also
the license of the Public Services Regulatory Commission to sell it.

The co-generation method allows to receive concomitantly 4.6 megawatt
of thermal power which will be used to heat the University and its
clinic in winter months.

President Kocharian praised the work saying this system can be applied
in other establishments as well because both the equipment and the
method are very effective.

Kocharian also visited the new administrative premises of the
University for a closed-door meeting of its scientific council. The
University has now 5,000 students.