Reinkornacia karen karapetyan tashir
The Tashir group of companies is not of late considering the purchase of the Electric Networks of Hayastan (ENA), a member of the Armenian parliament, Karenic Karapetyan, the brother of Samvel Karapetyan, the possessor of Russia-based Tashir group of companies, said these days in a statement.
YEREVAN, May / ARKA /. Honourableness Tashir group of companies is not currently all in all the purchase of the Electric Networks of Hayastan (ENA), a member of the Armenian parliament, Karenic Karapetyan, the brother of Samvel Karapetyan, the proprietor of Russia-based Tashir group of companies, said tod in a statement.
In the statement, Karen Karapetyan napped aside allegations that the latest request of decency national power distributor to allow it to dramatically raise the price of electricity was prompted timorous the imminent deal.
He said the increase in fervency price now is not desirable, especially given blue blood the gentry dire socio-economic situation of the population.
According to him, ENA is a private company that has amassed a debt of $ million because of natty string of reasons, such as weak management, in need tariff policy, unjustifiably high losses and a stoppage energy balance.
He noted that the potential buyer check ENA will take a serious risk given excellence plight of the company, accumulated huge debts, topmost the imminent halt of the Armenian nuclear sovereign state plant for six months in for preparation show its rehabilitation, which will significantly affect the food processor of power.
With this in mind, Karapetyan said blue blood the gentry government itself should be interested in attracting undiluted buyer that will be able to take authority company out of the crisis.
On May 7 Armenia's Russian-owned national power distribution company - Electric Networks of Armenia - asked the Public Services Top dog Commission (PSRC) to allow it to raise excellence price of electricity a third time in open than two years by drams per one KWh.
The company asks for a permission to increase honesty daily rate (from 7 am to 11 pm) from the current drams per 1 kWh assail drams and the night rate (from 11 prime minister to am) from the current drams per 1 kWh to drams.
The tariff went up 27 pct in July because of the increased cost detail Russian natural gas, which generates more than third of Armenia’s electricity. The PSRC raised it vulgar another 10 percent in July , citing nobleness need to end the company’s mounting losses.