Interfax June 8 2004 Yerevan. (Interfax) - The Japanese government plans to invest $4.5 million in the construction of a thermal power plant in Yerevan with a capacity of 1.5 megawatts based on a waste incineration plant, Armenian Natural Resource Minister Vardan Aivazyan told journalists on Monday. He said that the ministry has approved the construction of the plant and thermal power plant at the Nurabshen dump, which covers an area of over 60 hectares. Talks are currently underway between a potential subcontractor for the project - Japan's Shimizu - and the Yerevan Mayor's Office. Aivazyan said that the project would involve the use of up to 800 - 900 cubic meters of rubbish per day to produce methane to be used in electricity production. The minister said that recently Armenia set an output tariff for electricity produced from burning biogas of $0.08 per 1 kWh. The investor is happy with this tariff. He said that the talks should be completed by September 10, after which construction should begin. Diana Arutyunyan, the national coordinator of the project, told Interfax that the Japanese state company New Energy and Industrial Technology Organization plans to finance the project. She said that Shimizu has already completed the first stage of work on an audit and preparation of a feasibility study. She also said that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is interested in this project. Electricity production in Armenia fell 0.29% to 5.5 billion kWh in 2003.
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