Wednesday, August 29 2018 11:50

ArmInfo.  The unit of the  Yerevan Thermal Power Plant will be put into operation on September  25 after the completion of preventive maintenance activities, Arkadi  Gevorgyan, Deputy Director General of the unit for technical issues  told ArmInfo correspondent on August 29.

According to him, in total 10.6 billion drams were allocated for the  project. These are mostly the TPP's own funds accumulated on a  special account of the plant for the last 3 years.  The contractor of  the work is US General Electric. As a result of modernization, the  unit's capacity will increase by 7 MW, and the efficiency will  increase by 1%, the annual additional volume of generated electricity  will be about 60 million kW / h.  The station was stopped on August  5.

To recall, the gas turbine power unit with the combined cycle of the  Yerevan TPP was built on a loan provided by the Japan Bank for  International Cooperation (JBIC) and was put into commercial  operation in April 2010. The rated power of the unit is 243 MW, the  thermal power is about 434 GJ / h.  The Yerevan TPP is a customer of  Iranian natural gas, which is supplied to Armenia in exchange for  electricity at a rate of 3 kWh per 1 cubic meter of gas. The last  time the unit was stopped for maintenance work in June 2014. Then the  cost of overhaul amounted to 9.5 billion drams, 90% of which were  used to purchase spare parts for the gas turbine. The planned  preventive maintenance is held every 36 thousand hours of work of the  station.