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Solar power in Armenia

Armenia has a huge potential of solar energy, due to it's geographical position. According to www.minenergy.am the avarage amount of solar energy per square meter is 1720 kWh. Nowadays Armenian use more and more solar energy, as it is highly effective. One of examples is American University in Armenia, According to www.inforse.org/ similar system was installed In 1999-2002 at American University of Armenia, there were build solar heaters witch used to heat up auditoriums, and supply hot water during cold perioud. Another example is UN House in Armenia this building also uses solar power and this makes huge savings which proofs that solar energy could be highly effective for Armenia

Armenia has a good geographical location for using sun's power, however according to experts Armenia is not yet ready for this. One huge problem for using this system in Armenia is cost. Many experts insist that on each square meter in Armenia solar energy is equal to one barrel of oil. So to use this huge potential of this country Armenia has to use technology called solar photovoltaic (PV), But the one major issue with this is that, cost of PV panels is very high, and Armenia is not yet ready for this.