Sunday, December 14, 2025

Russia and Azerbaijan hike electricity transit through Georgia

TBILISI, December 6 – Georgia’s power grid is once again proving to be one of the South Caucasus’ busiest transit corridors, with fresh data showing a sharp rise in electricity flows moving through the country toward Turkey. According to figures released on Thursday, Georgia handled 200 million kilowatt-hours of transit electricity in October alone. Most … Read more

Georgia boosts gas import from Russia

TBILISI, December 6 – Georgia’s natural gas imports rose again this year, with new data showing the country bought more than 286 million dollars’ worth of gas in the first ten months of 2025. The figures reported by BMG highlight a small overall increase of 4 percent compared to the same period in 2024, but … Read more

Georgia needs a competent energy strategy

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Murman Margvelashvili is Director of Energy Studies at World Experience for Georgia.

Georgia is an energy dependent country – with 65% of energy demand being covered from external sources. Despite the richness in hydropower resources Georgia still has a negative balance even in electricity import-export. Energy dependence has a negative impact

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