{"id":254469,"date":"2014-06-10T18:57:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T14:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=254469"},"modified":"2014-06-10T18:58:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T14:58:22","slug":"electricity-price-in-armenia-to-increase-on-august-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/10\/electricity-price-in-armenia-to-increase-on-august-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Electricity Price in Armenia to Increase on August 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">A new, increased electricity tariff will operate in Armenia beginning August 1, RA Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) Chair Robert Nazaryan (pictured) said today in parliament.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to him, the increase in the electricity price was inevitable, as otherwise, Electric Networks of Armenia might go bankrupt: it already has suffered damages to the tune of 16 billion 600 million AMD.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;If we had a slight chance, of even 0.5%, we wouldn&#39;t take this step. It&#39;s hard for us too, to hear different types of remarks addressed to us, to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azatutyun.am\/content\/article\/25413284.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>indignation of the people<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. If we are not forced to raise the tariffs, in 2&ndash;3 years you would blame us for not ensuring this stability and managing&nbsp;to bring it to this state,&quot; he said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEarlier, the PSRC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/05\/electricity-in-armenia-again-to-increase-in-price.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>declared<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that, according to a preliminary assessment, additional funds of about 20 billion AMD (excluding VAT) are needed for the financial stability of electricity companies; thus, the electricity tarrif has to increase by 10%.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNazaryan did not rule out the possibility of an additional price increase in 2015.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new, increased electricity tariff will operate in Armenia beginning August 1, RA Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) Chair Robert Nazaryan&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10463,55961,50559,53119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}