Georgia and Türkiye amend electricity-exchange rules

Verified facts

• The 21 May 2026 ministerial order amends the electricity-capacity market rules and describes an electricity-exchange arrangement with Türkiye for May–July 2026, with return in September–November 2026. It allocates the defined export volume to the market operator under the stated rule. A targeted rule does not confer an export or exchange right on a generator, trader, supplier or external company.
• The amendment refers to managing existing and expected spring–summer surplus and avoiding or mitigating generation restrictions. A system-balancing response does not demonstrate that a named renewable or conventional asset has surplus, dispatch priority, export eligibility, usable interconnector capacity, a counterpart, price, payment or revenue.
• Georgia’s Energy and Water Supply law frames transmission access, connection, capacity and cross-border exchange around system-operator functions, technical capacity, contracts, rules and regulatory conditions. A statutory framework does not establish that a particular party meets the technical, contractual, financial or regulatory conditions.
• EBRD’s 2025–26 country assessment reports slow deployment of new grid-scale renewable capacity despite a CfD support scheme and 2023–24 auction rounds. Independent analysis reinforces the distinction between policy architecture and an asset-specific route to connection, support, offtake or finance.