ARMENIA READY TO SUPPLY ELECTRICITY IN MARCH

Today’s Zaman
Nov 26 2008
Turkey

Armenia is ready to start supplying its neighbor Turkey with
electricity as early as March, an Armenian minister has said.

Armen Movsisian, Armenia’s minister of energy and natural resources,
said technical preparations for the sale of electricity to Turkey
were still under way and that they were expected to be completed
within the next six months, Armenian news agencies have reported. The
electricity purchase comes as part of a deal between the two sides
signed in September and is seen as a concrete step in the direction
of normalization of ties between the two estranged neighbors.

Under the agreement, signed by Armenia’s Energy Ministry, Electricity
Networks of Armenia (ENA) and the Turkish electricity trading company
UNIT, Armenia is to start supplying 1.5 billion kilowatt hours of
electricity a year and will eventually increase this annual volume
to 3.5 billion.

Movsisian said the export of Armenian electricity to Turkey may begin
on March 1 if Ankara completes all the required technical and legal
arrangements by then. "A few days ago we received information from
the Turkish side that the work is on its due course," the Armenian
minister said. "We don’t have any major work to be done on our part
and expect to start the export of electricity at the planned time."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress