Professor Murman Margvelashvili charts Georgia’s path from Soviet-era systems to a contested contemporary energy landscape, where hydropower dependence, emerging technologies, and grid vulnerabilities intersect with strategic autonomy.
Content
- From Soviet system to 2025: evolution of Georgia’s energy mix
- Dependency and geopolitical risk across Georgia’s energy sources
- Ownership and control of Georgian hydropower
- Hydrogen in Georgia: prospects and pathways
- Have renewables peaked? Headroom for additional capacity
- Nuclear power in Georgia: options, debates, feasibility
- Abkhazia and South Ossetia: implications for Georgia’s power grid
- Balancing Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Russia, the EU and China: safeguarding strategic autonomy
- Expanding Caspian gas to Europe: do new Georgian transit pipelines need to be built?
- Armenia’s role in Georgia’s energy geopolitics
- United States interests in Georgia’s energy sector
- Türkiye–Azerbaijan energy cooperation: impacts on Georgia
- Untapped and hidden energy potential in Georgia
- Reinvesting transit revenues into energy modernisation
- Supply shocks and blackouts: resilience and response
- Assessing the effectiveness of Georgia’s energy strategy
- Governance gaps and failures: lessons for reform
- Under-researched energy topics in Georgia
Murman Margvelashvili
Professor Murman Margvelashvili is a Georgian energy policy expert with more than 30 years of experience, in energy sector. His broad interests include energy security, sustainability, and geopolitics of energy transition.
As Director of Energy Studies at World Experience for Georgia, Associate Professor at Ilia State University, and Director of the Energy and Sustainability Institute, he has helped shape key national energy strategies. Notably, Professor Margvelashvili played a key role in shaping the National Energy Policy and National Energy and Climate Plan, as well as conceptualizing the National Hydrogen Strategy.
He contributes as a country expert for the EU4Energy programme under the International Energy Agency and consults widely across Georgia and Central Asia, advancing renewable energy, efficiency, and regional energy security initiatives.
Selected Publications:
Margvelashvili, M., 2025. The Role of Black Sea Security in Shaping the Green Energy Corridor, in: Scutaru, G., Margvelashvili, M. (Eds.), Defending Maritime Assets. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 55–63. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2300-6_5
Margvelashvili Murman, Menagharishvili Zurab, 2019. Energy Ties in Occupied Abkhazia as a Potential Threat to Georgia’s Western Aspirations, in: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series – E: Human and Societal Dynamics. IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-945-4-50
Margvelashvili Murman, 2017. Systemic Approach to Energy Security, in: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series – E: Human and Societal Dynamics. IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-777-1-65
The role of Central Asia in decarbonization of Southern Gas Corridor
WEG 2022 (English) http://weg.ge/sites/default/files/other_paper_10_weg.pdf
Lessons of Namakhvani HPP – Forbes Georgia
2022 (Georgian) https://weg.ge/sites/default/files/n127-tl-murman.pdf
National Energy Policy of Georgia
2023 (Georgian) https://www.economy.ge/uploads/files/2017/energy/12_2022/sakartvelos_sakhelmtsifos_energetikuli_politika.pdf
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