YEREVAN, January 19. /ARKA/. Armenia’s energy sector may face serious problems in 2021, MP Mikael Melkumyan from the opposition Prosperous Armenia party said during a parliamentary session on Monday.
According to him, the problems are likely to be caused by the planned 140-day halt of the Armenian nuclear power plant for a major maintenance, which accounts for more than a third of electricity produced in the country and the situation in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), which lost about 100 MW energy generating capacities out of the total 190 MW.
According to Melkumyan, taking into account that Nagorno-Karabakh consumed 590 million kWh and exported 390 kWh to Armenia, the government in Yerevan should take into account these losses and the fact that it will have to supply electricity to Artsakh.