“The country is supplied with electricity through the flow from Russia, about 40 megawatts come from the differential HPP-1,” Logua said.

Everything is ready to carry out repair work at the station and they will begin in the coming days. All work on the repair of the tunnel must be completed by May 1 this year.

The specialists will have to repair the damaged section of the diversion tunnel 2.5 km long by the end of April, eliminate leaks, which will significantly reduce power losses. The total length of the tunnel is 15 km.

The Ingurhes station was commissioned in 1978. The average annual output of the Ingur HPS is 3 billion 700 million kilowatt-hours.