Aysor, Armenia
Aug 29 2009
Are there any mass blackouts? Yes or No?
Recently mass power blackouts have become frequent in Armenia. And
according to our sources, the electricity is switched off not only in
dwelling but also in governmental buildings. The company of `The
electric networks of Armenia’ was addressed for finding out the
reasons of the problem.
`There are no mass blackouts. In our company this problem is paid much
attention to, all the blackouts are consistently inspected, and if any
delays are registered, the employees bear the responsibility’, – said
Zhirayr Papazyan, the vice president of the electric networks of
Armenia, the head of the department of regulation service to Aysor.am.
He ensured that in substations of the company there are no technical
problems. `If there are any accidents, we try to settle everything
down, but no stir has ever been made’.
`If any district has a blackout more than for 6 hours, this can make a
stir’,-said Zh. Papzyan.
`According to the statistics, the blackouts have reduced in the
Republic’,-ensured Zh. Papazyan.
Meanwhile Slavik sargsyan, the president of the social organization of
`Pan-Armenian association of power engineering specialist’ declared
that the number of blackouts increase year by year.
`The whole system is in a terrible state. There is not a single
transformer in Armenia fully operating. The whole electric system is a
monopoly’, – said S. Sargsyan.
As to him, the devices are not modern and the money got for the
electric supply is not used for amortization.
`The reason of the blackouts is the terrible technical state’,
-concluded S.Sargsyan.
As registered in the site of the regulation commission of the Public
Services, there are 331270 subscribers in Yerevan at present. In the
first half of 2009 the average duration of a blackout is 178.6
minute/subscriber and most of the blackouts 138.6 minute/subscriber
(or 77.6 %) is because of the failure in the supply site.
The numbers in Yerevan are twice more than those in regions.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
