YEREVAN. – Starting from late 2014, new technical requirements will be posed to the equipment installed in Armenia’s small hydropower plants (SHPPs), “EcoLur” NGO reports.

The requirements will be binding for the newly constructed, rehabilitated, and re-equipped SHPPs, alike.

The technical requirements will be based on the results of examining the international track-record, says the Government of Armenia 2014 Action Plan.

Under this source, the standards of the International Electrotechnical Commission will be applied, and they will be implemented once the executive branch of power adopts, in the third week of November 2014, the Armenian Government draft resolution “On establishing technical requirements posed to equipment installed in small hydropower plants.”