Lori 1 Wind Farm

Lori 1 Wind Farm
Lori 1 Wind Farm
	The Lori 1 Wind Power plant at Pushkin Pass
Country	Armenia;
Location	Lori Province
Coordinates	40°54′41.36″N 44°25′52.86″E / 40.9114889°N 44.4313500°E
Status	Operational
Commission date	2005
Construction cost	US$3.2 million
Owner	High-Voltage Electric Networks of Armenia
Wind farm
Type	Onshore
Power generation
Units operational	4 x 660 kW
Nameplate capacity	2.6 MW; Planned: 90 MW
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Lori 1 Wind Farm is a wind farm in Armenia located along the Bazum Mountains at Pushkin Pass in Lori, Armenia. The first wind farm in the country, it has four 660-kW wind turbines and has a capacity of 2.64 MWe.^[1] Completed in December 2005 by the Iranian company Sunir with US$3.2 million funding from Iran, it is owned by the High-Voltage Electric Networks of Armenia.^[1] In 2006, Lori 1 generated only 2.6 GWh of electricity (a yearly average of 296.8 KWe—about 11% of installed capacity).^[2]

The Armenian and Iranian authorities have agreed to expand the wind farm up to 90 MW.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "Wind energy in Armenia: overview of potential and development perspectives" (PDF). US AID. March 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-19. Retrieved 2012-12-23.
^ PSRC-Q42006-Energy-Main-Indicators Archived 2011-05-31 at the Wayback Machine, Public Services Regulatory Commission of Armenia, 2007.]
^ Iran-Armenia Wind Farm

[usaid-1] "Wind energy in Armenia: overview of potential and development perspectives" (PDF). US AID. March 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-19. Retrieved 2012-12-23.

[2] PSRC-Q42006-Energy-Main-Indicators Archived 2011-05-31 at the Wayback Machine, Public Services Regulatory Commission of Armenia, 2007.]

[3] Iran-Armenia Wind Farm

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