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Causes
There were different causes of Armenian energy crisis during 1990-1995. Because of the war in Karapagh that began shortly after independence and led Turkey and Azerbaijan to close their borders with Armenia, and the collapse of the USSR Armenia occurred in the blockade. The gas and oil were vital for Armenian energy production and were being imported from Azerbaijan and Georgia. The war in Karapagh made Azerbaijan to stop exporting it to Armenia, and the fuel which were coming from Georgia was being bombed by Azerbaijan every few weeks so Armenia had not any sources of fuels and lots of energy producing companies that were working on that fuel could not produce the electricity.

The second reason was that the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant was not working at that time. The epicenter of the earthquake which took place in the northern part of Armenia in 1988 was 103 kilometers from the Metsamor NPP. However government of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic stopped it because of the risks.

So during long 5 years Armenians were getting energy only from Hydro Power Plants and other sources. But the amount of the energy was enough only for 1 hour per day.