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on Georgia's state of compliance
on Georgia's state of compliance
| Latest development in electricity | Date |
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| With Resolution No.46 on Approval of Electricity Market Rules, GENRC sets DAM rules, IDM rules and Balancing and Ancillary services market Rules in place. | August 2020 |
| With Resolution N39, GNERC approves the unbundling rules for distribution system operator | July 2020 |
| Government of Georgia adopts Electricity Market Concept Design (Resolution №246). | April 2020 |
| With Resolution №9, the regulator adopts certification procedure for the TSO. | March 2020 |
| The Ministry adopts Ten year transmission system development plan for the TSO. | March 2020 |
| Parliament adopts the Law on Energy and Water Supply and the Law on Renewable Energy Sources and lays down the foundation to reform its energy sector in line with the Energy Community Treaty and European energy law. | December 2019 |
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The Draft Law on Energy and Water Supply was submitted to the Parliament, where it is being debated. |
May 2019 |
| Latest development in gas | Date |
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| Parliament adopts the Law on Energy and Water Supply and the Law on Renewable Energy Sources and lays down the foundation to reform its energy sector in line with the Energy Community Treaty and European energy law. | December 2019 |
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The Secretariat provided GNERC with a draft transmission tariff methodology in line with the Third Package and Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/460 establishing a network code on harmonised transmission tariff structures for gas. |
March 2019 |
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GNERC adopted the combined gas transmission and distribution network code, which contains provisions on nomination and re-nomination of gas deliveries. However, the code does not provide third party access rules fully pursuant to the Third Energy Package. |
August 2018 |
| Latest development in oil | Date |
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The draft of the Oil Stockholding Act was submitted to the Ministry of Energy. The obligation is to maintain stocks of oil and/or petroleum products responding to 90 days of net import volume. |
December 2017 |
State of compliance of Georgia's infrastructure acquis
Georgia has not transposed Regulation (EU) 347/2013, as adapted and adopted by the Energy Community, and thus fails to meet the general transposition deadline set by the Regulation. The Contracting Party also failed to appoint a national competent authority as required under the Regulation by 30 June 2017. It thus breaches the Energy Community infrastructure acquis.
State of compliance of Georgia's national regulatory authority
In accordance with the requirements of the Third Energy Package, GNERC is a single authority with nation-wide competences in regulating electricity and natural gas sectors in Georgia. Since GNERC was established by law, it would require a decision of the parliament to liquidate it.
The competences of GNERC under the applicable legal framework largely reflect the requirements of Directive 2009/72/EC and Directive 2009/73/EC. The main shortcoming of GNERC’s regulatory scope is that in 2005 the power to approve Electricity Market Rules and Gas Market Rules – the key documents regulating electricity and gas markets in Georgia – was shifted to the Ministry of Energy of Georgia, which adversely affects GNERC’s regulatory authority.
| Latest development in renewable energy | Date |
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| Parliament adopts the Law on Energy and Water Supply and the Law on Renewable Energy Sources and lays down the foundation to reform its energy sector in line with the Energy Community Treaty and European energy law. | December 2019 |
| The Parliament committees reviewed and approved the draft Law on Energy and Water supply at the first reading. There will be two more rounds of reviews and readings by the Committees and Parliament respectively. | October 2019 |
| With Order № 1-1/481, NREAP was approved by the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development. | October 2019 |
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The draft Law on Energy and Water supply was submitted to the Parliament. |
May 2019 |
| Latest developments in energy efficiency | Date |
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| The Parliament of Georgia adopts Law on Energy Efficiency and the Law on Energy Performance of Buildings, which transpose the EU Directives in this field. | May 2020 |
| Government of Georgia adopts National Energy Efficiency Action Plan of Georgia, NEEAP, (2019-2020) | December 2019 |
State of compliance of Georgia's environment acquis
| Latest development in environment | Date |
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Law on the Environmental Assessment Code was adopted. It regulates both types of environmental assessments. |
December 2017 |
State of compliance of Georgia's acquis
| Latest development in climate | Date |
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Following its first Biennial Update Report in 2016, Georgia submitted its second Biennial Update Report, accompanied by the National Inventory Report. |
June 2019 |
State of compliance of Georgia's competition and State aid acquis
In order to adequately regulate competition in the electricity and gas sectors, it is essential to amend the Law on Competition and expand the scope of certain provisions to encompass the regulated sectors of the economy or extend the competences of the Competition Agency without further limitations to the regulated sectors.
The Law’s provisions on State aid need to be brought in compliance with Article 18 of the Treaty and Annex III to the Treaty in order to effectively comply with the State aid acquis.
| Latest development in statistics | Date |
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The National Statistics Office of Georgia presents its National Strategy for the Development of Official Statistics of Georgia 2020-2023. |
December 2019 |
Georgia's energy sector
benchmark data
benchmark data
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Implementation by electricity indicators
Implementation by electricity indicators
* not taken into account in overall assessment.
status: 1 November 2019
source: calculated and compiled by the Energy Community Secretariat -
Facts and figures
Georgia: facts and figures in electricity
Description of data [unit] 2015 2016 2017 2018 Electricity generation [GWh] 10.593 11.365 11.315 11.934 Net imports [GWh] 699 479 1.497 1.509 Net exports [GWh] 676 572 686 589 Total electricity supplied [GWh] 10.616 11.272 12.127 12854 Losses in transmission [%] 2,21% 2,03% 1,97% 1,92% Losses in distribution [%] 7,76% 7,71% 7,39% 6,48% Consumption of energy sector [GWh]] 16,65 19,23 19,22 18,30 Final consumption of electricity [GWh] 6.757,65 7.245,23 7.601,22 8.252,29 Consumption structure [GWh] / industrial, transport, services and other 4.263,0 4.791,0 5.208 5.750 Consumption structure [GWh] / households (residential customers) 2.478,0 2.435,0 2.374 2.484 Net maximum electrical capacity of power plants [MW] 3.705,37 3.839,00 4.078,11 4113,23 Net maximum electrical capacity of power plants [MW] / coal-fired 13,2 13,2 13,2 13,2 Net maximum electrical capacity of power plants [MW] / gas-fired 913,2 913,2 913,2 913,2 Net maximum electrical capacity of power plants [MW] / hydro, total 2.792,17 2925,8 3164,91 3166,25 Horizontal transmission network [km] / substation capacity [MVA] 9.991,7 10.723,6 10.739,0 10.739,0 Horizontal transmission network [km] / number of interconnectors 11 11 11 11 Electricity customers / total 1.653.553 1.688.907 1.753.617 1.767.551 Electricity customers / non-households 97.546 126.418 111.711 105.634 Electricity customers / active eligible customers 0 0 0 0 -
Retail market opening
Retail market opening
Source: Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission (GNERC)
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Implementation by gas indicators
Implementation by gas indicators
status: 1 November 2019
source: calculated and compiled by the Energy Community Secretariat -
Facts and figures
Georgia: facts and figures in gas
Description of data [unit] 2015 2016 2017 2018 Natural gas production [Bcm] 0,011 0,006 0,008 0,009 Imports flows [Bcm] 2,502 2,255 2,335 2,277 Exports flows [Bcm] 0 0 0 0 Stock changes [Bcm] 0 0 0 0 Consumption of the energy sector calculated (heat and power plants, TSO' own consumption, losses and linepack change) [Bcm] 0,78 0,66 0,58 0,60 Interconnectors’ capacity [Bcm] / total 19,1625 19,1625 19,1625 19,1625 Interconnectors’ capacity [Bcm] / out of which bidirectional n/a n/a n/a n/a Storage working capacity [Bcm] n/a n/a n/a n/a Length of transmission network [km] 1.968 2.038 1.967 1.899 Length of distribution network [km] 18.757 20.893 26.425 28.811 Natural gas customers / total 970.101 1.055.600 1.157.127 1.239.022 Natural gas customers / out of which: non-households 30.549 33.979 40.910 42.096 Natural gas customers / eligible customers under national legislation 970.101 1.055.600 1.157.127 1.239.022 Natural gas customers / active eligible customers n/a n/a n/a 42.096 Internal market / gas supplied to active eligible customers [Bcm] 0,96 0,81 0,84 0,84 Internal market / share of total consumption [%] 40% 36% 37% 37% Final consumption of natural gas per sector [Bcm] 1,66 1,60 1,76 1,69
Consumption structure [Bcm] / industry and commercial customers 0,9635 0,814 0,843 0,836 Consumption structure [Bcm] / households 0,694 0,789 0,884 0,851 source: Ministry of economy and sustainable development, compiled by the Energy Community Secretariat
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Retail market opening
Retail Market Opening
Source: Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission (GNERC), compiled by the Energy Community Secretariat
Energy Efficiency
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Implementation by energy efficiency indicators
Implementation by energy efficiency indicators
status: 1 November 2019
source: calculated and compiled by the Energy Community Secretariat -
Energy efficiency Indicators
Energy Efficiency Indicators
Source: EUROSTAT and World Bank 2019 data and the Contracting Party's Reports
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Implementation of labelling Directive
Implementation of Energy Efficiency Product Regulation Overview
New labelling package adopted by the Ministerial Council in November 2018 was not assessed, as the transposition deadline expires in January 2020
Source: multiple sources of data (EECG reports, NEEAPs etc.), compiled by the Energy Community Secretariat
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Implementation by environment indicators
Implementation by environment indicators
status: 1 November 2019
source: calculated and compiled by the Energy Community Secretariat -
Installations under the LCP Directive
Installations Under the Large Combustion Plants Directive
Source: compiled by the Energy Community Secretariat
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Emissions from Large Combustion Plants
Total emissions from Large Combustion Plants in 2018
Source: compiled by the Energy Community Secretariat
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Competition Authority
Institutional setup and implementation of the Competition Authority
status: 1 November 2019
source: compiled by the Energy Community Secretariat -
State Aid Authority
Institutional setup and implementation of the State Aid Authority
status: 1 November 2019
source: compiled by the Energy Community Secretariat
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Regulatory authority
Institutional setup and implementation of the National Energy Regulatory Authority
status: 1 November 2019
source: compiled by the Energy Community Secretariat
