Renewable Energy of Georgia: Sources and Realization

The work describes the renewable energy resources of Georgia quantitatively and qualitatively in country and regional contexts. It is mentioned that Georgia is rich in this regard and in some degree it fills the lack of fuel resources (oil, natural gas) in the country. In particular, it comes 3.27 MM.kW.h energy of river surface runoffs on each square kilometer of the territory. As a southern country, Georgia is located in so-called "World Solar Zone" and the annual sunshine exceeds 250 days while wind energy supplies in separate zones exceed 4.5 B.kW.h annually. The country is also rich with underground thermal waters. In the present work it is also given an assessment of the use of renewable energy resources. In this regard, it is a better situation with the use of hydro power resources. However, according to 2016 year data, Georgian HPPs worked out only 11.4% of their technical capacity and 23.6% of their economic potential. It is discussed the energy use of solar, wind and thermal waters at the initial stage. There are formulated suggestions for improving the use of these resources, including in terms of legal regulations.