ArmInfo
The estimation of the coal resources in the village of Magavuz, Martakert district, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, will be continued in the next years, Armenia's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisyan said in an interview to the Public TV Company of Armenia.
"We already know that Nagorno-Karabakh has enough coal for us to restart the old unit of the Yerevan Thermal Power Plant. Two years ago we launched a new unit and suspended the old inefficient one. But later the President instructed us to consider ways to restart the unit and to make it efficient. So, we decided to use the coal from Magavuz. The unit will need some 2,000 tons of coal a day. This is a big project. Such projects are generally applied in the world. The unit will produce energy for both domestic use and export and will help us to cushion the impacts of the new rise in the world's fuel prices," the Minister said.
The existence of coal in Nagorno-Karaabkh was proved by a survey in the late 1980s. Nagorno-Karabakh's Prime Minister Ara Harutyunyan believes that this is a big treasure, a resource that will ensure the energy independence of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.
January 12, 2012 at 14:29