{"id":255637,"date":"2014-07-02T14:59:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T10:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=255637"},"modified":"2014-07-02T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T11:01:00","slug":"commissions-decision-on-electricity-price-hike-was-justified-armenian-energy-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/07\/02\/commissions-decision-on-electricity-price-hike-was-justified-armenian-energy-minister.html","title":{"rendered":"Commission&#8217;s Decision on Electricity Price Hike was Justified: Armenian Energy Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tArmenian Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Yervand Zakharyan (pictured) also is not happy about the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2014\/07\/01\/electricity-in-armenia-becomes-10-more-expensive.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong> increase in the electricity tarif<\/strong><\/span><\/a>f. He said this himself at a press conference in Yerevan today, stating that 105,000 families will receive state assistance to overcome the effects of the price increase.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to the minister, the actions of the Public Services Regulatory Commission were justified, and unfortunately, it wasn&#39;t possible to solve the issue any other way.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tZakharyan also spoke about the Yerevan Thermal Power Plant, noting that construction of the second unit is foreseen, which requires investment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn addition, the minister mentioned that the overhaul of the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant will begin in 2017, and it will cost $300 million USD.<\/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>Armenian Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Yervand Zakharyan (pictured) also is not happy about the increase in the electricity tariff. <!-- 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":255626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10463,56330,10622,19416,56649,56648,56258,56647],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255637"}],"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=255637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}