Georgia’s coal imports from Kazakhstan triple

Tbilisi, January 24 - Neftegaz.RU. Georgia’s coal and coal products imports from Kazakhstan from January through November 2021 amounted to $719,030, which is an increase of 205.9 %, compared to $235,010 over the same period of 2020, Trend reports via the National Statistics Office (Geostat).

The volume of coal and coal products imports from Kazakhstan in the reporting period of 2021 also increased by 28.4 % – from 2,490 tons over the same period of 2020 to 3,198 tons.

Thus, Kazakhstan ranked 2^nd among main coal and coal products exporters to Georgia over 1^st 11 months of 2021, following after:

• Russia ($7.2 million)
• while Turkey ranked 3^rd ($576 890)

Georgia’s coal and coal products import from January through November 2021 amounted to $8.6 million, which is a decrease of 36.2 %, compared to $13.5 million over the same period of 2020.

Georgia depends on imports for all its natural gas, oil is imported mainly in the form of refined oil products (diesel, 40.7%, and gasoline, 40.4%).
The energy mix is relatively diverse compared with other countries in the region.

In 2019, natural gas was the 1^st fuel in the energy mix (45.4%), followed by oil (27%), renewables (20.4%) and coal (4.7%).
The share of renewable sources in Georgia’s electricity mix is among the highest in the world (74.7% in 2020).