YEREVAN. – The four non-government National Assembly (NA) factions (Armenian National Congress (ANC), Prosperous Armenia, ARF Dashnaktsutyun, and Heritage) will be unrelenting in the matter of raising the electricity prices, since we are convinced that this can be avoided.  

ANC NA Faction Secretary Aram Manukyan stated the abovementioned at Wednesday’s parliamentary briefing.

In his words, the government representatives were not in attendance at the Public Services Regulatory Commission meeting on Tuesday, when the matter of increasing the electricity prices was discussed. And this, as per Manukyan, means that the authorities were sure that the commission will make the “desired” decision.      

“This means that a political decision was made. We are dealing with corruption risks. In the last two months, we couldn’t find out the real salaries of the energy sector officials [of Armenia],” the opposition MP stated, in particular.
Manukyan added that it was new for him to hear that Armenia actually purchases electricity from Georgia. 

“We all thought that we were selling and not buying it,” Aram Manukyan concluded.

The Public Services Regulatory Commission on Tuesday held a meeting and unanimously decided to increase the electricity price in Armenia by 3.85 drams (approx. $0.01), or by about 10 percent, as of August 1.

Accordingly, the daytime rate will increase from 38 drams (approx. $0.09) to 41.85 drams (approx. $0.10), and the nighttime rate will rise from 28 drams (approx. $0.07) to 31.85 drams (approx. $0.08), per kilowatt hour, for the households in Armenia.