Monday, October 5 2020 19:18
Alina Hovhannisyan

Electricity generation in Armenia increased by 1.9% in 8 months

Electricity generation in Armenia increased by 1.9% in 8 months

ArmInfo. Electricity generation in Armenia in January-August 2020 amounted to 5104.8 million kWh,  increased by 1.9% in y-o-y turns  (against the decline  by 3.5% a year earlier), and  in August  alone increased by 1.6% - up  to 656.4 million kWh.

According to the Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia, in  January-August 2020, TPPs increased electricity generation by 4.3%  per annum - to 2079.6 million kWh, while HPPs, on the contrary,  reduced by 24.4% - to 1,306.1 million kWh. Armenian NPP increased  electricity generation by 37.2% - to 1650.7 million kWh

During the reporting period, 29.6 thousand gigajoules of thermal  energy were produced, with a y-o-y growth of 65.4%. In the reporting  period, wind power plants produced 1.6 million kWh of electricity  (with a y-o-y decline of 30.4%), and solar - 12.8 million kWh (with  an annual growth of 42.2%).