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  • Georgia Ships High Enriched Uranium To Russia

    GEORGIA, 2016/01/03 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced “an extra succcess in world nuclear non-proliferation efforts”, with the shipment of high enriched uranium (HEU) from Georgia this week. The 1.83 kg of HEU was removed from the Breeder-1 Neutron Source at Tbilisi National University in Georgia to a fasten storage facility in Russia. The Georgian government in June requested assistance from the IAEA for the HEU removal operation. The IAEA subsequently contracted LUCH, a subsidiary of Russian national nuclear corporation Rosatom, and the Tbilisi National University’s Andronikashvili Institute of Physics in Georgia for the removal.

  • Georgians may see increased electricity tariff

    GEORGIA, 2015/07/27 Georgian Energy Minister Kakha Kaladze has said that the Georgian National Commission on Energy is ready to raise the electricity tariff in Tbilisi by additional than 22 % starting August 1, Sputnik reported. Kaladze stated that the tariff hike would affect customers of the electricity distribution company Energo-Pro Georgia Company, which provides electricity to 70 % of Georgia. Due to the depreciation of the national currency, Georgian energy companies are facing a tough situation and options are limited. Before as a result of the energy tariff adjustment, Energo-Pro Georgia, the Telasi Company and Kakheti Distribution Company, which is in threat of bankruptcy, applied for relief from the National Regulatory Commission for Energy and Water.

  • Georgian Energy Minister Kakha Kaladze

    GEORGIA, 2013/12/13 A new HPP will be constructed on the Kura river, Georgian Energy Minister Kakha Kaladze told reporters next the conference with his Turkish counterpart Taner Yildiz. "It is a joint project [with Turkey] on Kura river and appropriate groups are working on it", Kaladze said. At the conference he noted the importance of functioning power transmission line connecting Georgia and Turkey. "It is very significant facility, which will strengthen relations between the two nations," Kaladze underscored.

  • Energy Minister Natig Aliyev

    AZERBAIJAN, 2012/12/27 The Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum gas pipeline will be expanded to 25bn cubic meters a year after 2017. According to AzerTaj, the statement came from Energy Minister Natig Aliyev. He said in the nearest next, the volumes by this gas pipelines will be raised to 45bn cubic meters. “Azerbaijan and Georgia has implemented several projects of world concern. This is as well a large regional project which we plan to implement together”, Aliyev said.
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