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    Electricity of 70% of Yerevan consumers is restored - energy ministry

    November 02, 2013 | 14:20


    YEREVAN. - As of Saturday 11:30am, the electricity of the 70 percent
    of the consumers has been restored.

    The Armenian Energy and Natural Resources Minister's press secretary
    Lusine Harutyunyan told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am,
    commenting on Saturday morning's widespread power outage in capital
    city Yerevan.

    As per Harutyunyan, at 10:24am, Armenia's energy system had disengaged
    from that of Iran. But at 10:26am, the joint operation of the two
    systems was restored, and electricity is continuing to be supplied
    from Iran to Armenia.

    Electricity is being imported because Armenia's nuclear power plant,
    which supplies 35-40 percent of the country's electricity, had
    suspended operations earlier, to conduct a planned overhaul and
    refueling.

    As a result of the aforesaid disengagement, the electricity frequency
    of Armenia had dropped, and this caused the power outage.

    `Work is underway to restore [the electricity] of the remaining
    [consumers],' the press secretary stated.

    Lusine Harutyunyan added that the ministry is investigating the
    incident, so that similar incidents can be prevented in the future.

    http://news.am/eng/news/178968.html

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