{"id":264312,"date":"2015-04-14T12:04:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T08:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=264312"},"modified":"2015-04-14T12:07:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T08:07:21","slug":"electricity-prices-to-rise-in-armenia-no-changes-expected-in-gas-rates-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/04\/14\/electricity-prices-to-rise-in-armenia-no-changes-expected-in-gas-rates-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Electricity Prices to Rise in Armenia; No Changes Expected in Gas Rates: Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tIn the beginning of May, CJSC Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) will appeal to the RA Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) with a claim to increase the tariff for electricity supplied to consumers, Armenian daily <em>Haykakan Zhamanak<\/em> reports.<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to the daily&rsquo;s sources, it will be proposed to increase the electricity rates by 6 drams. Thus, a kilowatt-hour of energy will cost 48 drams during the daytime, and 38 drams &ndash; the&nbsp;nighttime. In addition, it will be announced that Russia has decreased the price of natural gas supplied to Armenia &#8211; from the current $189 (1,000 cu. m.) to $167.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUnlike the change in electricity tariff,<em> Haykakan Zhamanak<\/em> notes, the decrease in gas price will not directly affect the consumers; it will only ensure that the rate for natural gas supplied to Armenian consumers does not go further up.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;If the prices of natural gas supplied to Armenia were not decreased, the final tariff for gas supplied to consumers would have gone up by at least 5-6 percent due to the devaluation of the American dollar,&rdquo; the daily concludes.&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>Unlike the change in electricity tariff, Haykakan Zhamanak notes, the decrease in gas price will not directly affect the consumers; it will only ensure that the rate for natural gas supplied to Armenian consumers does not go further up&#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":255574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[60813,25281,60812,12232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264312"}],"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=264312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}