Lori 1 Wind Farm is a
wind farm in Armenia located along the
Bazum Mountains at
Pushkin Pass
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in
Lori,
Armenia
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...
. The first wind farm in the country, it has four 660-kW
wind turbines
A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. , hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, were generating over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each y ...
and has a capacity of 2.64 MWe.
[ Completed in December 2005 by the Iranian company Sunir with US$3.2 million funding from ]Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
, it is owned by the High-Voltage Electric Networks of Armenia. In 2006, Lori 1 generated only 2.6 GWh of electricity (a yearly average of 296.8 KWe—about 11% of installed capacity).
The Armenian and Iranian authorities have agreed to expand the wind farm up to 90 MW.Iran-Armenia Wind Farm
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References
Wind farms in Armenia
Armenia–Iran relations
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