YEREVAN. – The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of Armenia released a statement in connection with the widespread power outage on Saturday morning. 

“On [Saturday,] November 2 at 10:24am, the energy system of Armenia disengaged from the energy system of Iran. Due this technical reason, there were power outages in the country.

“On September 22, Armenia’s nuclear power plant was disconnected from the energy production grid, to conduct refueling, annual planned overhaul, and raising the level of safety; this  work will last 54 days.

“So these days electricity was being imported from Iran to Armenia.  

“As a result of the [aforesaid] disengagement, the electricity frequency of Armenia dropped, and this caused the power outages.

“[But] at 10:26am, the joint operation between the energy systems of Iran and Armenia was restored. At 11:30am, the electricity of the 70 percent of the country’s electricity consumers  was restored.  

“Now, work is underway to restore the energy supply of the remaining consumers. 

“At the same time, a professional investigation is underway to find out the causes of the incident and to avoid such problems in future,” the statement reads, in particular.