Georgia faces power outage

/AzerNews/

By Mushvig Mehdiyev

Georgia's capital city Tbilisi and its eastern part remained without power at night on November 24.

The cause behind the power outage was a breakdown in of the country's largest power stations.

Electricity customers in Tbilisi and Georgia's eastern regions remained without service until the power supply was restored at 03:00 a.m. in the

That was reportedly not the first failure in Georgia's power system. Emergency shutdown of the 500-kilowatt Imereti power line plunged almost all territory of Georgia into darkness for two hours in July 2014. The crash even caused the TV tower to be disconnected.

Hydroelectricity power plants meet nearly 85 percent of Georgia's overall electricity need. The government adopted Energy Policy in 2006, aiming to reduce the dependence on energy imports by encouraging sustainable development of domestic hydropower resources. The Georgian government is inviting technically and financially qualified domestic and international developers to invest in its power industry.