Cooperation with Foreign Organizations
JSC Georgian State Electrosystem actively cooperates with various foreign organizations and associations. Specifically, in 2024, GSE began cooperation with the Security Coordination Centre (SCC) established in Belgrade, which supports transmission system operators in deepening and advancing relations with the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E). Furthermore, the coordination center improves the quality of coordination among transmission system operators, ensures operational planning in real time, and also facilitates the operational security of the electricity system, reduces risks, and, in case of their realization, mitigates damage. The coordination center's services are used by: the transmission system operators of the Republic of Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, and Albania, as well as Turkey's transmission system operator TEİAŞ, to which Georgia's electricity network is connected.
Since 2023, GSE has been actively cooperating with the Association of Issuing Bodies AIB HUB, which issues European certificates of origin. In 2024, GSE became an observer member of the association and was given the opportunity to become familiar with the specifics of AIB HUB's work and receive information about trading certificates of origin on a European scale. Within the framework of observer status, GSE's experience is systematically shared by AIB HUB members - European certificate issuing bodies and hub experts. GSE, as an observer member of the hub, has the right to attend the association's general meetings and scheme group meetings, and also has access to certain sections of the AIB HUB platform.
To express interest in future cooperation, in 2025, GSE concluded a Memorandum of Understanding with Turkey's electricity transmission corporation TEİAŞ and the Coordinated Auction Office in South East Europe SEE CAO. Within the framework of the memorandum, future cooperation between GSE, TEİAŞ, and SEE CAO was defined regarding the coordinated allocation of interconnection capacity at their borders between Georgia, Turkey, and Eastern European countries.
SEE CAO represents a centralized platform for the allocation of cross-border capacity established in Montenegro, which ensures the allocation of cross-border capacity through joint auctions between South East European countries. The platform is used by the electricity transmission system operators of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Greece, Turkey, North Macedonia, and Italy.
Since 2025, GSE has also been cooperating with the engineering consulting company Elia Grid International SA/NV (EGI) established in Belgium. To establish the framework of cooperation, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between GSE and EGI, which aims to establish a strategic partnership and strengthen Georgia's electricity transmission network. EGI expresses readiness to consult GSE on issues of electricity transmission system reliability, which, in turn, will contribute to raising the quality of the country's energy security and integrating new generation facilities into the network. EGI's main field of activity is energy, and in this direction, it implements projects in more than 20 countries worldwide. Cooperation with EGI, in the long-term perspective, will strengthen Georgia's role as a regional energy hub.
