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Construction of back-to-back station on Armenia's border with Georgia to kick off in 2021

25.02.2020, 17:50
In 2021 Armenia will launch the construction of a back-to-back power station on the border with Georgia, Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Hakob Vardanyan said on Tuesday when speaking at an energy security event in Yerevan.


Construction of back-to-back station on Armenia's  border with Georgia to kick off in 2021
YEREVAN, February 25. /ARKA/. In 2021 Armenia will launch the construction of a back-to-back power station on the border with Georgia, Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Hakob Vardanyan said on Tuesday when speaking at an energy security event in Yerevan.

He said the back-to-back station to interconnects the power grids of both countries is  part of a project to build an energy corridor that will be stretching from Iran through Armenia and Georgia to Russia.

“Our policy is to remain an exporter of electricity, for which we are building new capacities, including renewable energy sources. The third power transmission line between Armenia and Iran, now under construction will allow to increase exports up to 1200 MW of electricity per hour.  And in order to cooperate with Georgia and  Russia, we will build another  back-to-back station in the vicinity of the Armenian village of Ddmashen," Vardanyan said.

He said  all tenders will be held before the end of this year and construction and installation  will begin in 2021. In his words, the back-to-back station near Ddmashen will be one of the largest in the world occupying an area of 64 hectares.

"I think that in 3-4 years Armenia will be a connecting power hub between Iran, Georgia and Russia," Vardanyan said.

The agreement on the development of a feasibility study for the North-South energy corridor project with a total capacity of up to 1.2 GW to interconnect the energy systems of Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Iran, was signed in September 2016. -0-