Armenia's energy infrastructures and natural resources ministry is considering a number of alternative ways for supplying thermal energy to the country’s communities which have no gas-conveying infrastructures, the ministry’s press office said.
In particular, solar photovoltaic panels and hot-water boilers as well as pellet boilers and burners are meant.
The chief of the energy ministry’s unit in charge of energy management, Hayk Badalyan, said that appropriate preliminary calculations are being carried out for each of these communities to estimate how much gas infrastructure deployment will take and how much is needed for deploying alternative energy infrastructures.
As many as 329 communities with 150,000 residents or 5% of the country’s population have no gas-supplying infrastructures, ARKA reported.
