The largest solar power plant of Armenia produced 129.450 kWh electricity in 2015, network collaboration officer at Caritas Armenia benevolent organization (which takes part in the plant construction), Tigran Petrosyan, told Armenian News – NEWS.am.

The plant is located in the Emily Aregak daycare center for children with disabilities in Gyumri, the second largest city of Armenia. Currently this plant is the largest one in the republic (95.25 kWt at most). It produced 129450 kWh in 2015. Slightly over 395.000 was used by the daycare center, little less then 90,000 going into the network. The same year, the center took about 43,000 kWh from the network.

To note, this is not yet a large volume in relative values (in 2015, the Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) received 6 bln 314.5 mln kWh).

In Petrosyan’s words, Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Hayk Harutyunyan deserves special gratitude, since thanks to his efforts two large solar power plants in the cities of Gyumri and Spital retrospectively received a legislative framework of work since 1 January 2015, although the relevant law was adopted only in May 2016. Under that law, the owners of solar plants with the capacity of up to 150 kWh can supply electricity to the network without VAT and get deductions for electricity in lieu of their supplies.