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Aghstev-one hydro power plant in Armenia Aghstev-one was constricted in 2001 on the canal of Kotayq. It has 2800kW power and this hydro power plant is unique as it is twice greater than other small hydro power plants. Its owner is Gevorg Paytyan. History After the destruction of the Soviet Union, in 90s, The Republic of Armenia was in a very hard conditions. Because of the blockade appears the crises of energy related to the sharp decline of fuel imports. It became obvious, that Armenia energetically was not fully independent. The question of finding new alternative sources of energy became normal. In past being included in big system of Soviet Union the water resources, related to the energy, was not completely used. After calculation and evaluation, it was obvious, that there was an opportunity of building hydroelectric power station with minimum 400 megawatts general power.

The government of the Republic of Armenia adopted a certain set of laws, with the purpose of development of alternative energy, which would stimulate private investments in that area. The results didn't take long. Numerous companies were created very soon, which undertook building of small HPPs. The first one was “Hydroenergy” Ltd., created by Haykaz Paytyana in 1992 and ruled by his heirs. In a short period of time they designed and constructed 2 small HPPs. 1st one was the Yerevan Lake HPP, which started working since 1996 having an installed power of only 750 kw.

The second one is on irrigation canal of Kotayq, which has 1500kw installed power, it started to operate in 1998. Both hydropower plants produce 6 million kWh electricity together. Next project was hydropower plant Aghstev 1 which has had  more power and higher pressure. For realization the project, the founders of  hydro power has made ELENEX Ltd. (2001): The installed power of  Aghstev 1 is 2800 kW, which is twice greater than small hydro power of canal of Kotayq. We want to mention that after this organizations, this kind of  projects increased like a mushrooms after rain  and the area has got a huge development. This is evidenced by the following numbers: during 1997-2015 (18 years) was constructed more than 150 small hydro power plants with total installed 250MW power.