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30.09.2025

EBRD’s toxic bond with Indorama: Funding polluter in Georgia’s shrinking democracy

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) continues to back one of its most controversial clients in one of Europe’s most troubled democracies. Human rights, labour laws, and the environment are all at stake
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31.07.2023

Electricity Consumption Trends in Georgia Over the Past Decade: Patterns and Influencing Factors

Since 2016, consumption has started to grow, coinciding with the development of the cryptocurrency mining industry [from 9.09 billion kWh in 2016 to 9.87 billion kWh in 2017].
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26.06.2023

Adverse Consequences of Small and Medium-Sized Hydropower Plants

Tens of middle and small-size hydropower plants have been built in Georgia for the last decade.
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17.05.2023

Public protests against Namakhvani Hydropower Plant: key issues and unanswered questions

In recent years, the protest rally against the Namakhvani hydropower plant for saving the Rioni Valley has become the largest, most long-lasting, and most widespread movement in Georgia.
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30.06.2021

The role of traditional rituals in resisting energy injustice: The case of hydropower developments in Svaneti, Georgia

The study intervenes in the energy justice literature by bringing to the foreground the local, emplaced, and bottom-up perspective
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05.05.2021

The cracks of Shuakhevi

Water is leaking out of Shuakhevi hydropower plant’s recently reopened dam again. With three international financial institutions involved, who’s responsible for the safety of this USD 420 million project?
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10.04.2021

Saving ‘private’ Rioni: Georgia’s growing environmental protest

In just a few months, a protest against a large dam on the Rioni River has grown from a handful of people in Lechkhumi, western Georgia into a national demonstration. On the International Day of Action for Rivers, 14 March, thousands of Georgians made history with the largest environmental protest in the country’s recent past.
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17.11.2020

Georgia and the Quest for Electrical Security

Jesse Dylan Young from Johns Hopkins University, Global Policy School of Advanced International Studies, explored the energy system of Goergia, its shortcomings and future opportunities in his study “To Light the Lands”: Georgia and the Quest for Electrical Security." You can find the full text available here in English and its Georgian translation by Green Alternative.
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17.09.2020

The never ending saga of the Nenskra HPP

The Nenskra HPP is one of 35 hydropower plants slated for development in Upper Svaneti, a region roughly one-and-a-half times the size of Luxembourg.

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