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Azerbaijan Thermoelectric Power Station Cuts Electric Energy Production

Oil&Gas Materials 13 November 2008 12:54 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku, 13 November/ Trend , corr. S.Aliyev /In January-October, the Azerbaijan Thermoelectric Power Station (TPS), which produces almost the half of all electric energy in the country, produced 7.3bln KWt/h of electric energy against 7.7bln KWt/h in 2007, the Azerenergy OJSC said. The reduction in the production of electric energy is explained with less use of electric energy by subscribers after set up of meters.

In October 2008, some 658mln KWt/h of electric energy was produced in the station.

Thermoelectric Power Station consists of eight power plants (a design capacity of 300 megawatts each), seven of which are morally and physically obsolete. As a result of the modernization of the fifth power unit its production capacity was increased to 330 megawatts. There are currently ongoing reconstruction of the remaining blocks stations.

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