Armenia negotiates with investors for development of inexhaustible energy sources sphere

YEREVAN, JANUARY 19, ARMENPRESS: Armenia is negotiating with different foreign and local investors for implementation of programs in frames of wind and solar energy sectors. This was noted by press secretary of the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Armenia Lusine Harutyunyan during the interview with Armenpress. Monitoring works of wind power project in Shirak region of Armenian-Italian private company have already been concluded.

First Wind Power farm is located in the northern region of Lori along the Bazum Mountains at Pushkin Pass. The wind farm has a capacity of 2.64 MegaWatts and consists of 4 wind turbines. As explained on the sign, it was completed on December 2005 by the Iranian company "Sunir" with funding from the Islamic Republic of Iran.