ArmInfo.One should not expect unified prices on the EAEU common energy market. There is also no reason to expect that electricity produced in Armenia will be exported. The Eurasian market has enough of its own generation, moreover, cheaper one, energy security expert Vahe Davtyan expressed such an opinion to ArmInfo.
"The first manifestations of such disintegration trends were recorded back in 2016. The fact that energy integration within the framework of the EAEU will be formal in nature became clear even when the Eurasian Economic Commission replaced the wording "single market "with" common market, "he emphasized.
According to the expert, today it is already possible to predict the deliberate inhibition of the integration of the business entities in the EAEU countries involved in the energy sector. Given the fact that national interests are set above supranational, the formation of a common energy market in the EAEU will be problematic for all its participants.
Such prospects, against the background of uneven development of energy systems in the EAEU, an excess of capacities and an export orientation of national energy markets, etc., according to Davtyan, look quite natural, moreover, they are logical.
Against this background, according to the expert, Yerevan needs to think about establishing export of electricity through Iran to the markets of the Middle East. According to his estimates, given the shortage of electricity available in these markets, it is the Middle East direction that can and should become an important component of the Armenian long-term geo-economic strategy.
"And in this issue Yerevan urgently needs the support of partners in the EAEU, especially Moscow. The Armenian authorities, following the example of colleagues in the EAEU, need to be pragmatic and refuse from rash idealistic theses in its official rhetoric. The latter indicate the absence of foreign policy and foreign economic calculation, the extreme limited strategic thinking and wretchedness of expert personnel potential, "Davtyan summed up.