ARMENIAN NPP BOOSTS ELECTRICITY OUTPUT 3.6% IN H1 2008

Interfax News Agency
July 11 2008
Russia

Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

in January-June 2008 boosted electricity output 3.6% year-on-year
to 1.529 billion kilowatt hours, the NPP’s general director Gagik
Markosian told Interfax.

Transfer of electricity rose 3.7% to 1.408 billion kilowatt hours.

He said that the NPP’s electricity production exceeded an earlier
forecast by 6.3%, transfer – by 6.5%.

Markosian added that the NPP plans to shut down for a period of 85
days as of September 1, 2008 for the implementation of capital repairs
and refueling.

In September 2003, Armenian NPP was transferred to CJSC INTER RAO
UES for a financial management period of five years.

Armenian NPP is installed with two reactors with a combined capacity
of 815 megawatts. The first reactor came online in 1976, the second
– 1980. At the start of 1989 the station was shut down. In 1995 the
second reactor was restarted with 404 megawatts of capacity.