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Recovery
After all this "dark and cold" years, Armenian energy sector changed significantly after 5 years (1990-1995). After restarting the second unit of Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant put the end of the crisis of electricity. People had 24 hours of electricity 7 days in week. Besides this other power plants like Hrazdan Thermal Power Plant, Vorotan Cascade and Sevan-Hrazdan Cascade provided daily load capacity and Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant base load of capacity. Thermal power plants usually operated to provide electricity in winter when it is peak as it is quite cold in the winter in Armenia. Even though these times gone, however Armenia still relies on imported resources like gas and oil which collapsed the whole system in 90's. All these imported gas and oil come from Russia via Georgia. Only a small amount of gas come from Iran.

Main Electricity Production after 1995
Armenian electricity system reached up to 3914MW of installed (full) capacity, however only 2845MW (73%) is currently operating. The electricity is mainly produced from 3 sources: nuclear (34%), thermal (32%) and hydro (34%). Over the past years, this number has increased as many new power plants are built. Gas-powered turbines provide 1/4 of current Armenia's electricity. These turbines are not only give huge amount of electricity but are also very efficient which in its turn reduced the price for 1KW/hr from 400AMD to 160-170AMD. There are also couple of small power plants with capacity of 50MW. One is Yerevan Thermoelectric Plant which mainly produces electricity for Nairit Chemical Plant, and one is Vanadzor Thermoelectric Plant which is not operational now but will operate for Vanadzor Chemical Plant if it become operational. Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant produces approximately 800MW of electricity in full capacity but 1 of the units is operating. The largest part of electricity production are hydro power plants. The largest hydro power plants in Armenia are Sevan-Hrazdan and Vorotan cascades which can produce up to 960MW of electricity.

Summary
Armenian electricity was in real crisis from 1990-1995 but people were able to survive in such conditions. Fortunately all these "dark and cold" years had gone and now Armenia's energy system is one of the most advanced and reliable systems in the region however, the Armenia should not only rely on imported resources.