Curated power industry news from thousands of top sources. The statement reports on negative impact on Azerbaijani nature and the environment of the region as a result of Armenia's recent military provocations. Can Distributed Energy Resources displace the need for a transmission project? Azerbaijani Ministry of Ecology has released a statement on Armenian forces targeting Mingachevir Hydro Power Station. Separately, they also hit the Khizi-Absheron region near Azerbaijan’s capital Baku with mid-range missiles. [2] Mingachevir reservoir has a storage capacity of 15.730 cubic kilometres (12,753,000 acre⋅ft), covering 605 km2 (234 sq mi). Azerbaijani troops took immediate counter-attack measures to push back against Armenia’s artillery offensive. The Ministry strongly condemns these actions, which undermine the security of not only Azerbaijan but the entire region. Armenia armed forces targeted the Mingachevir Hydro Power Plant and water reservoir, the largest in the South Caucasus region. "We call on the world's international environmental and humanitarian organizations to take decisive steps to force the occupying Armenia to comply with human rights, international environmental protection requirements and international obligations," the statement said. 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"At about 04:00 local time (3:00 Moscow time), the Armenian armed forces carried out a missile attack on a major Azerbaijani industrial city of Mingechevir, which is 100 km away from the zone of the hostilities, and the Mingachevir Hydroelectric Power Plant located there," the prosecutors said, adding that all missiles were intercepted by Azerbaijan’s air defense forces. On October 4, Armenian forces began to launch intensive missile attacks against Azerbaijan’s second-largest Ganja, Barda, Tartar and Beylagan. “Proof of Armenia's deliberate and targeted attack against critical civilian infrastructure of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan and Armenia are locked in a conflict over Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh breakaway region, which along with seven adjacent regions was occupied by Armenian forces in a war in the early 1990s. Although the United Nations Security Council adopted four resolutions demanding the immediate withdrawal of the occupying forces from Azerbaijani lands and the return of internally displaced Azerbaijanis to their ancestral lands, Armenia has failed to comply with all four legally binding documents. The Azerbaijani Prosecutor General’s Office said 11 October that Armenian armed forces had carried out a missile attack on the Mingachevir Hydroelectric Power Plant in Azerbaijan, Russian state media outlet TASS reported. Since 1994, hostilities between the two countries have persisted despite the temporary cease-fire agreement. Armed forces of the occupant Republic of Armenia continue to violate the norms and principles of international law, the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and it’s Protocols, as well as the requirements of the humanitarian ceasefire declared on October 10, 2020, at 12:00 with firing the settlements and strategic facilities from heavy artillery and various missile systems, deliberately targeting Azerbaijani civilians, Trend reports citing Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The modernisation process was discussed during the meeting taking place in Dushanbe by the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan Negmatullo Khikmatullzoda and the representative of EDB Rashid Kadyrov. Armenia's aggression has resulted in deaths and injuries among the civilian population. The length of the dam is 1,550 metres (5,090 ft), its width is 16 metres (52 ft) and height is 80 m (260 ft). The statement says that Armenian armed forces continue to violate the norms and principles of international law, including the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and it’s Protocols, as well as the requirements of the humanitarian ceasefire declared on October 10, 2020, at 12:00, firing settlements and strategic facilities with heavy artillery and various missile systems. The Power Plant serves several purposes to include hydroelectric power production and water storage for irrigation. Subscribe today to the Daily Power Industry Newsletter for the most up-to-date and relevant utility industry news. Mingachevir Hydro Power Plant located on the reservoir is the largest hydroelectric power station of Azerbaijan with an installed electric capacity of 401.6 megawatts. It is used for the generation of electric power. In August 2017, HydroWorld.com reported Azerenerji said that under the president’s leadership, “Significant achievements in the field of electric power have been achieved in Azerbaijan.” The company said that, to date, 14 hydropower stations have been commissioned and four plants with a total capacity of about 15 MW are being constructed. Mingachevir reservoir, behind the dam, supplies water to the Upper Qarabag and Upper Sirvan Channels which help irrigate about 1,000,000 ha (2,500,000 acres) of farmland in the country. Azerbaijani Ministry of Ecology has released a statement on Armenian forces targeting Mingachevir Hydro Power Station. The construction of the station started in 1945, the first hydro aggregate was put into operation in 1953. The main objectives of the Reconstruction of Mingachevir Hydroelectric Power Plant Cascade are as follows: (a) Rehabilitation of the both power plants of the Cascade: Mingachevir HPP and Varvara HPP, including completion of the replacement of two 60 MW units with the new 70 MW units as well as the Power Transformers at Mingachevir HPP, and the replacement of old 110 kV and 220 kV equipment at … Water intersection includes concrete dam consisting of 3 holes (width of 30 m with an open channel), water intake facility to pressured water pipes consisting of 6 holes (length of 66 m), dam of land (Length 1550 m, height 80 m), device with 1 hole that intakes water to Upper Garabagh and Upper Shirvan canal. Thermal Power stations can be built near the reservoirs. A total of 25 civilians in Azerbaijan have been killed as a result of shelling of residential settlements by Armenian forces since September 27 until now, while 127 people have been injured, according to the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office. Its maximum depth is 75 m (246 ft), while average depth - 26 m (85 ft). The reservoir’s length is 70 km (43 mi) and width is 18 km (11 mi). No, a national price on carbon would be the same for all generators. 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