Armenia is working to prepare its energy grid to handle the export of electricity to Turkey this spring, Armenian Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Armen Movsisyan said in Yerevan on Wednesday, Armenian Public Radio reported.
Armenia is on track to begin exporting electricity to Turkey this spring in line with an agreement reached by the two governments last year, Movsisyan said speaking to reporters in Yerevan. The process is waiting on corresponding preparations to conclude in Turkey. But working out the details of how the energy will be exported to Turkey is not that easy, he said, adding that although Armenia has “a rather rich experience” as an energy exporter to Georgia and Iran, it has no experience “working with the corresponding system of Turkey.”
Under an agreement signed late last year between the Armenian Electricity Networks CJSC and the Turkish UNIT Company, Armenia was expected to start supplying 1.5 billion kilowatts per hour of electricity a year to Turkey in March, with that amount eventually increasing to 3.5 billion kilowatts per hour a year, Asbarez.com reported. That time frame required technical preparations at power grids in eastern Turkey to be completed by March. Movsisyan had said in September that the infrastructure was in place on the Armenian side to deliver the electricity but that repairs to transmission lines and the installation of a new transformer in Turkey would take four to five months.
The power-selling deal was announced following Turkish President Abdullah G“l”s September visit to Yerevan and was based on a time frame that required technical preparations at power grids in eastern Turkey to be completed by March.
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