Enguri HPP is shutting down for three months from 20 January

Enguri HPP is shutting down for three months. As Levan Mebonia, chairman of the Board of Directors of Enguri HPP LLC, told Interpressnews, the plant will halt operations from 20 January until the end of April in order to rehabilitate the diversion tunnel.

Enguri HPP is shutting down for three months. As Levan Mebonia, chairman of the Board of Directors of Enguri HPP LLC, told Interpressnews, the plant will halt operations from 20 January until the end of April in order to rehabilitate the diversion tunnel.

“The other rehabilitation works at the plant have already begun. What we are talking about now is the repair of the tunnel, which requires the plant to be shut down,” said Levan Mebonia.

“Shutting Enguri HPP down will not harm our power system, because generation is seasonally at a minimum at this time,” noted Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia Natia Turnava.

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