ArmInfo.The lack of doctrinal management is today the main problem of the Armenian energy industry. The only conceptual document on the basis of which the republic's energy policy is implemented is the concept of energy security of Armenia, approved in 2011.
ArmInfo expressed his opinion on energy security Vahe Davtyan."However, energy cooperation between Iran and Azerbaijan is taking place in the region. Signing a convention on the Caspian Sea allows Iran to consider Azerbaijan to be connected to the Russian power grids in parallel with Armenia. Significantly limits the use of our export potential of the republic by gradually losing positions in the Georgian electricity market. However, given the expected 6% decline in domestic energy consumption in 2019, the authorities are simply obliged to find ways to "Energy-intensive production and export activization. Thus, a number of key provisions of the concept have long been irrelevant," the expert emphasized.In this light, Davtyan is convinced of the need for Armenia's lobbying for its own readiness for energy integration, for systemic lobbying of energy interests. According to his forecasts, at the same time, there are no weighty reasons for selling Iranian gas through Armenia to Georgia today.
First of all, due to the absence of such a gas pipeline, since the gas pipeline from Iran ends in the Ararat region. Swap deliveries rest on the constantly developing energy cooperation between Georgia and Azerbaijan.A practical vision of the future of nuclear energy in Armenia, according to expert estimates, is also absent. This is evidenced by the point in the government's program on the need for the long-term development of the industry without specifying specific steps and even direction. And none of the numerous projects to build a new nuclear power plant as a baseline has been approved. Meanwhile, in parallel with the work aimed at the next extension of the life of the ANPP, Davtyan sees the need to develop a long-term strategy for the development of nuclear energy in order to find investors for the new NPP.