Armenia

TABLE 1. ESTIMATED ENERGY RESERVES

Estimated available energy sources
Fossil fuels Nuclear Renewables
Solid1 Liquid2 Gas3 Uranium4 Hydro5 Other renewables5 (wind)
Total amount in specific units* — — 176.0 — 7.0 1.1
Total amount in petajoules (PJ) — — 6.0 — 25.0 4.0

TABLE 2. ENERGY STATISTICS (PJ)

Average annual growth rate (%)
2000 2005 2010 2015 2018 2000 to 2018
Energy consumption*
– Total 92.00 109.00 107.25 132.72 137,12 2,24
– Solids** 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.046 40,58
– Liquids 13.00 17.00 16.00 12.90 13.50 0,21
– Gases 52.00 56.00 54.10 73.74 85,64 2,81
– Nuclear 22.00 30.00 27.20 30.46 25,25 0,77
– Hydro 5.00 6.00 9.20 7.96 8,35 2.29
– Other renewables 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 4,33 40,11
Energy production
– Total 27.01 36.34 37.15 46.38 37.93 1,9
– Solids** 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
– Liquids 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
– Gases 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
– Nuclear 22.00 30.00 27.2 30.46 25,25 0,77
– Hydro 5.00 6.00 9.20 7.96 8,35 2,29
– Other renewables 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 4,33 40,11
Net import (Import-Export)
– Total 64.90 72.66 70.10 86.34 99.19 2,38

TABLE 3. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND CAPACITY

Average annual growth rate (%)
1988 2000 2005 2010 2015 2019 2000 to 2019
Capacity of electrical plants (GW(e))
– Thermal 1.74 1.74 1.74 1.99 2.43 2.43 2.11
– Hydro (incl. small HPPs) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.10 1.25 1.34 1.72
– Nuclear1 0.816 0.408 0.408 0.408 0.408 0.408 0.00
– Renewable 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.015 50.1
– Total 3.556 3.148 3.148 3.648 4.088 4.193 1.65
Electricity production (TWh)
– Thermal 8.94 2.69 1.83 1.41 2.80 3.04 0.68
– Hydro (incl. small HPPs) 1.52 1.26 1.66 2.59 2.21 2.40 3.6
– Nuclear 4.82 2.01 2.72 2.49 2.79 2.20 0.05
– Renewable 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.023 53.7
– Total2 15.28 5.96 6.21 6.49 7.80 7.66 1.40
Total electricity consumption (TWh) 12.39 4.77 4.89 5.21 6.10 5.80 1.10

TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS

2000 2005 2010 2014 2015 2018 2019
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) 24.20 31.20 29.40 38.20 39.45 n/a
Electricity per capita (MWh/capita) 1.49 1.52 1.60 1.97 2.02 1.97 1.95
Electricity production/Energy production (%) 81 63 64 78 61 75 n/a
Nuclear/total electricity (Gross, %) 33.70 43.70 38.40 31.80 35.75 26.67 28.8
Ratio of external dependency (%)1 68 67 66 72 65.30 72,6 n/a

TABLE 5: STATUS AND PERFORMANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AS OF 31 DECEMBER 2019

Reactor Unit Type Net
Capacity
[MW(e)]		 Status Operator Reactor
Supplier		 Construction
Date		 First
Criticality
Date		 First Grid
Date		 Commercial
Date		 Shutdown
Date		 UCF
for
2019
ARMENIAN-2 PWR 375 Operational ANPPCJSC FAEA 1975-07-01 1980-01-01 1980-01-05 1980-05-03 57.8
ARMENIAN-1 PWR 376 Permanent Shutdown ANPPCJSC FAEA 1969-07-01 1976-12-15 1976-12-22 1977-10-06 1989-02-25
Data source: IAEA - Power Reactor Information System (PRIS).
Note: Table is completely generated from PRIS data to reflect the latest available information and may be more up to date than the text of the report.

TABLE 6. STATUS OF DECOMMISSIONING PROCESS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Reactor unit Shutdown reason Decommissioning strategy Current decommissioning phase Current fuel management phase Decommis-sioning licence Licence terminated year
Armenia 1 February 1989 – other economic reasons SAFSTOR Reactor core defueling Storage in an off-site facility ANPP CJSC —

TABLE 7. PLANNED NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Reactor unit/project name Owner Type Capacity (MW(e)) Expected construction start year Expected commercial year
Armenian NPP-2 Metsamorenergoatom PWR 600–1000 TBD —