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GORBACHEV TO SPONSOR SOLAR ENERGY IN ARMENIA?
by Giorgi Lomsadze
EurasiaNet.org, NY
Oct 12 2011
Armenian solar energy enthusiasts claim that Mikhail Gorbachev
has promised to underwrite production of solar systems in
nuclear-power-addicted Armenia.
Diehard supporters of homemade solar energy solutions vowed on October
11 to go ahead with their plans to set up a solar panel factory in
the Armenian town of Spitak, the Russian news agency Regnum reported.
Gorbachev will back them if the Armenian government will not,
they claimed.
Vaan Amazaspian, energy researcher and the project's key backer,
said that the green energy charity Green Cross, of which the ex-Soviet
leader is the founding president, pledged $8 million for the ambitious
plan. Green Cross supports sustainable energy and conflict-resolution
initiatives. Reports of the investment surfaced in August, but the
Geneva-based NGO has not yet confirmed its alleged plans to sponsor
the plant.
Amazaspian indicated that the Armenian government, for its part,
had been less than encouraging about the idea of taking Spitak solar.
Rather than to solar energy, the Armenian government has long given
priority to upgrading, or rather replacing, the Soviet-built nuclear
plant Metsamor, the country~Rs main energy provider.
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/64304
From: A. Papazian
by Giorgi Lomsadze
EurasiaNet.org, NY
Oct 12 2011
Armenian solar energy enthusiasts claim that Mikhail Gorbachev
has promised to underwrite production of solar systems in
nuclear-power-addicted Armenia.
Diehard supporters of homemade solar energy solutions vowed on October
11 to go ahead with their plans to set up a solar panel factory in
the Armenian town of Spitak, the Russian news agency Regnum reported.
Gorbachev will back them if the Armenian government will not,
they claimed.
Vaan Amazaspian, energy researcher and the project's key backer,
said that the green energy charity Green Cross, of which the ex-Soviet
leader is the founding president, pledged $8 million for the ambitious
plan. Green Cross supports sustainable energy and conflict-resolution
initiatives. Reports of the investment surfaced in August, but the
Geneva-based NGO has not yet confirmed its alleged plans to sponsor
the plant.
Amazaspian indicated that the Armenian government, for its part,
had been less than encouraging about the idea of taking Spitak solar.
Rather than to solar energy, the Armenian government has long given
priority to upgrading, or rather replacing, the Soviet-built nuclear
plant Metsamor, the country~Rs main energy provider.
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/64304
From: A. Papazian