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Some 5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity were generated in Armenia in the first eight months of 2019, down 5% from the same months of 2018, the National Statistical Committee revealed.

According to the latest figures, electricity generation at thermal power plants dropped by 10% to 1 billion 994.2 million kilowatt-hours in January-August. Some 17.9 thousand gigajoules of thermal energy were produced in the country in eight months, a decrease of 30.9% from 2018.

Meanwhile, power generation at hydropower plants increased by 6.7% to 1 billion 798.7 million kWh in the reporting period.

In January-August 2019, Armenia’s Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) generated 1 billion 203.5 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, down 6.2% from the same months of 2018.

Electricity generation at solar power plants stood at 9 million kWh in the first eight months of this year, securing almost a 3-fold growth from the same period last year, while wind turbines generated 2.3 million kWh of electricity, growing by 2.3 times.