Monday, March 7 2022 18:28
Alina Hovhannisyan

19.2% year-on-year growth in energy output in Armenia this Jan 

19.2% year-on-year growth in energy output in Armenia this Jan 

ArmInfo.The electric energy output totaled 885.2mln kwh in Armenia this January, a 19.2% growth as compared with last January (against 2.2% growth the previous  year).  

During the period under review, thermal power plants generated a  total of 434.7 kwh of electric energy (a 32.8% year-on-year growth),  hydropower plants, 118mln kwh (a 7.4% growth), the Armenian NPP,  322.8mln kwh (6.9% growth). Wind power stations generated a total of  0.5mln kwh - a 2.5-fold year-on- year growth. Solar power stations  generated a total of 9.2mln kwh - 2.9-fold year-on-year growth. 

Last year, energy output totaled 7,674.9mln kwh - a 0.6% year-on-year  decline (against a 1.2% growth in 2020). Thermal power plants  generated a total of 3,383.7mln kwh (a 6.9% growth), hydropower  plants generated a total of 2,201.7mln kwh (a 23.8% growth). The  Armenian NPP generated a total of 1,998.4mln kwh of energy (a 27.5%  decline). Thermal energy output totaled 11.3 thousand gigajoules (a  69.9% decline). Wind power stations generated a total of 1.5mln kwh  (a 21.1% decline). Solar power stations generated a total of 89.6mln  kwh (a 4.2-fold growth).