Construction of New High-Voltage Armenia-Georgia Power Transmission Line to Launch Next Year

The construction of the new high-voltage Armenia-Georgia overhead power transmission line will launch next year, Deputy Minister of Energy Infrastructure and Natural Resources of Armenia Hayk Harutyunyan mentioned in his Facebook press-conference on Thursday, summing up the works carried out in 2016.

The implementation of the program will give an opportunity to increase interflows between two countries first to 350 MW and then 700 MW.

The construction of the Armenia-Iran third high-voltage transmission line has already started. It aims to increase the interflows with Iran by several times.

According to Mr. Harutyunyan, as a result of implementing these two systematic programs, Armenia will have a principally new power system.  

Armenia will thereby have an opportunity to export power energy three times more than the consumption of our domestic market. This creates serious preconditions to have an important role in the regional processes, the Deputy Minister said.