Second stator for fifth unit of Hrazdan thermal power plant reaches
destination

HRAZDAN, November 7. /ARKA/. The second stator intended for the fifth
unit of Hrazdan Thermal Power Plant was brought to Hrazdan railway
station on Friday, Levon Hakobyan, the South-Caucasian Railways’
deputy director in charge of safety, said.

The stator was brought from Rotterdam and the transportation took 25
days.

The stator has to pass other 12 kilometers to reach the plant.

`Such a fast delivery was due to the certain work carried out by
South-Caucasian Railways to upgrade the railway economy quality,’
Hakobyan said.

He said the South-Caucasian Railways won tender for transportation of
this 320-ton cargo, and now the company also ought to deliver the
stator to the plant.

The fifth unit of Hrazdan Thermal Power Plant (Armenia) belonging to
ArmRosgasprom will be put in exploitation in July 2010.

Thanks to the plant, Armenia will add 480 megawatt of effective and
competitive in the region electric power to its thermal power
capacity.

Hrazdan-5 program is directly connected with construction of
Iran-Armenia gas pipeline.

Under the agreement, the electric power generated by the plant will be
sent to Iran in exchange of the natural gas imported in Armenia.

South-Caucasian Railways, a 100-percent subsidiary of Russian
Railways, runs Armenian Railway.

Company, listed in its fixed assets the rolling stock of the Armenian
Railway on June 1, 2008, under a concession contract of February 13,
2008.

Armenian Railway has been handed over to the South-Caucasian Railways
CJSC for 30 years with a right for one-decade prolongation. M.V.-0–

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress