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.