Baku, Azerbaijan, July 6
By Tamilla Mammadova - Trend:
Georgia is turning from a country of a net exporter of electricity into a country of a net importer, Trend reports citing data of National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
The report released by Geostat shows that the largest suppliers of the Georgian market are Russia and Azerbaijan, while the electricity produced in Georgia is mainly acquired by Russia and Turkey.
"In 2007-2017, the total volume of electricity imports in Georgia amounted to 6.598 million kWh. At the same time, 76 percent of the total electricity was imported from Russia, 18 percent from Azerbaijan and the remaining 6 percent from other countries," said Geostat.
Total electricity imports increased to 1,537 million kWh per year and accounted for 12 percent of the total supply. As for imported electricity from Russia, it reached 250 million kWh, which is 16 percent of the imported electricity and 2 percent of the total supply (up to 4 percent from 2007 to 2017). Therefore, despite the fact that the share of electricity imports has proportionally increased in the total volume of resources, Georgia’s dependence on Russian imports has decreased.
Around 0.2 percent of Georgia’s natural gas comes from Russia (under the Gazprom contract), and the rest is imported from Azerbaijan and other countries.
In 2007-2017, the export of electricity amounted to 7,938 million kWh (an average of 721,6 million kWh per year). On average, 54 percent of exports accounted for Russia, 32 percent for Turkey and 15 percent for Azerbaijan and other countries. Over the past twelve months, Georgia has exported 461 million kWh. Of these, 64 percent fall to Turkey, 15 percent to Azerbaijan, and 21 percent to Russia.