Last year on the 27th of October in the hall of the Ministry of Energy
Infrastructures and Natural Resources of the Republic of Armenia, Debed Hydro
LLC, a subsidiary of the Energy Investment Holdings CJSC—the company registered
and operating in Armenia—and The Robbins Company signed a Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) for construction of the Shnogh (also called Shnokh) Hydro
Power Plant (HPP) project in Armenia.
The 76 MW Shnogh Project (also called Shnokh) is located
near Shnogh, a village 20 km south of the Georgian border, on the Debed river
flowing through Armenia’s northern Lori province.
The Shnogh project is a run-of-river plant which harnesses
the water from the Debed (formed by confluence of Dzoraget and Pambak and
Martsiget rivers, which will be dammed behind a 25m high concrete weir, and
conveyed to the powerhouse along a long free-flow tunnel, a pressure shaft
(230m), and a high pressure tunnel. The intake dam is on the Debed river a few
kilometres downstream of the confluence of the Pambak and Dzoraget rivers.
The outlet of the tailrace tunnel is located on the Debed
river approx. 20 km downstream of the intake near the village of Neghots. The
two turbines will be housed in a surface powerhouse located on the bank of the
Debed River, in the vicinity of Neghots village.
The Robbins Company is a willing participant in the Shnogh
HPP project contributing one of its own TBMs for boring a 22-km long headrace
tunnel. They will also be providing a crew for performing the boring works and
training local Armenian labour, and overseeing
the process of boring works during entire duration of the project.
The tripartite Framework Agreement to Design, Develop,
Finance, Build, Own, and Operate the Shnogh HPP was approved by the RA
Government’s Decree N 973-Ա dated August 10 and signed by the RA
Government, Debed Hydro LLC (as a Developer) and Investors Club of Armenia
closed-end contractual nonpublic investment fund (as a sponsor).
Shnogh is estimated to cost EUR120-152 million (USD150-190
million) to develop. Click am/13 for tunnelbuilder archive. Visit https://eih.am/.07/18.
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