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Tuesday, 20 January 2015 19:17

ARGUMENTATION ON THE POSSIBILITY OF RELOCATING THE HYDROPOWER PLANT OF THE INGURI HYDROELECTRIC STATION IN ORDER TO ENSURE THE ENERGETIC SECURITY OF THE FUNCTIONING OF GEORGIA’S POWER SYSTEM 

G. Tsintsadze
(Georgia)

The mass media has recently spread information that the government of Abkhazia has declared a claim that the hydropower plant (HPP) of the Inguri HES should be placed under its management (or transferred into its ownership).  The HPP is located on the territory of the Gali district in Abkhazia. Analogous claims periodically appeared in the press also in the preceding years depending on a political situation, but the signing of the Russian-Abkhazian treaty has made it necessary to consider this issue from a different angle. Proceeding from the current political situation in Abkhazia it is not difficult to guess in whose hands the management of the Inguri HES may turn out to be. 

The Inguri HES is one of the strategic enterprises and the foundation of Georgia’s energetic security because its specific weight accounts for 40% of the total power potential of Georgia. The Caucasus is a hardly predictable region and therefore nothing that might happen in the future can be excluded. 

Today’s political and economic situation demands that unless the jurisdiction of Georgia is restored all over its territory, the Georgian government must take steps in order to prevent a prospective crisis situation in the energy sector of the country.

One of the ways in this direction is to change the location of the HPP of the Inguri HES.




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