In Nagorno-Karabakh built mini-hydro. The program of construction of mini-hydro is divided into several stages.

Construction in the region mini-hydro started with building on a hill near the village Aterk station Trge-1, said technical director of JSC “ArtsahGES Armen Gasparyan.

According to the head hydroelectric Valery Harutyunyan, in addition to additional reserves of electricity, at Trge-1 will be created as new jobs.

“The composition of the” Artsakh GES has formed a new unit with 31 staff members. Today, while 13 people are working. Shortage of specialists will try to compensate by residents of nearby villages, primarily Aterka “- said Harutyunyan.

Also willing to appropriate pool Trge-2, which is located about 5 km from Trge-1. Equipment is ordered, the project works are nearing completion. The building will begin this month. Trge-2 will be ready for operation in March-April 2011 The next object of the cascade hydropower plants on the river will station Trge-3.

As a result, the total generating capacity in the Nagorno-Karabakh will grow by 65.5 million kWh per year.

The works are on schedule and on mini-hydro Matagis-2. Here, the construction of watershed and a master node has been completed. Began installation of pipes. Work continues on the change in the river bed. Simultaneously, construction of hydroelectric power stations, in particular, the excavation work.

Director of JSC “Tehnoshin” Garik Petrosyan noted that in the administrative territory Matagisskoy community building work in full swing.

In general, Matagis-1 mastered 1 billion 450 million drams. The total cost of the program is 2 billion 600 million drams.

Under the plan, hydroelectric Matagis-1 and Matagis-2 will be ready for operation in January-March 2011

In general, the Nagorno-Karabakh is planned to build 24-25 mini-hydroelectric power stations, five of which are already planned to build on the first stage. After their construction will be possible to obtain an additional 30% of electricity.

Note that the shares of Artsakh HPS were listed and included in the list of “B” on the stock exchange NASDAQ OMX Armenia.

CEO Exchange NASDAQ OMX – Armen Melikyan says the first IPO “Artsakh HPS significant.

At present, the authorized capital of OJSC “Artsakh HPP increased from 5 billion 100 million AMD to 6 billion drams. Amount received from sale of shares was the construction of new mini-hydroelectric power in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Recall that in 2006, Russian specialists studied the energy sector-Karabakh – basically, with the prospect of investing in the sphere of small hydropower stations. They noted that conditions for the construction of hydropower good.And here you can make a lot of electricity.