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PM instructs researching expediency of installing hydropower plants in several river basins

PM instructs researching expediency of installing hydropower plants in several river basins

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 27, ARMENPRESS. Prime Minister of Armenia Karen Karapetyan tasked the minister of Nature Protection and the minister of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources to present proposals in a 15-day period, jointly with the public services regulatory commission, regarding the current situation in the field of license provision of operation permits of hydropower plants.

“Particularly, first of all, review the hydropower plant development scheme which was approved by the 2009 governmental decree, present proposals over the purposefulness of installing hydropower plants in the basins of the rivers Akhuryan, Debed, Dzoraget, Azat, Arpa and Vorotan, and over new permits on water usage”, the PM said.

The PM also tasked to present proposals in terms of applying new mechanisms of price formations for hydropower plants which operate continuously for 20 years, with the aim of mitigating nature protection issues. 








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