Household electricity rose 5 tetri a kilowatt-hour in April, and the top band is now above 28 tetri

For the Tbilisi supply company, household rates including VAT are 20.041 tetri per kilowatt-hour up to 101 kWh, 24.053 between 101 and 301, and 28.537 above 301. EP Georgia Supply, which covers the regions, is marginally cheaper at every level: 19.731, 23.707 and 28.227 respectively. Non-household low-voltage supply at 380 to 220 volts is 35.261 tetri in Tbilisi and 35.713 for small enterprises on the EP side. Those last two are the figures that matter to a guesthouse or a shop, because a commercial connection does not get the banded household rate at all.

GNERC gives three reasons: greater dependence on imported electricity, higher purchase costs and planned large-scale infrastructure investment. It also sets the rise in context, noting that tariffs fell by 3 tetri across 2024 and 2025, so the net increase against 2023 is around 2 tetri, and arguing that Georgian electricity remains among the cheapest in the region and in Europe. On the investment side the article records Telasi planning over 400 million lari in Tbilisi, Energo-Pro Georgia around 200 million lari a year from 2026 to 2030 with up to a billion in total, plus 129 million in network investment not reflected in tariffs, and more than 1.5 billion lari across the sector.

For a long-term tenancy the answer is usually the tenant, since bills in Georgia are commonly left out of the rent. For a short let it is the host, because the guest pays one nightly rate whatever the meter does, and that is where an increase of this kind lands hardest: a coastal flat running air conditioning through August, or a mountain flat heated electrically in February, sits in the top band for months at a time. If you are pricing a short let for next season, the electricity line is one of the few costs that has demonstrably moved this year and is worth recalculating rather than carrying over.

Of the three reasons given, dependence on imported electricity is the one with the longest tail. A country that generates most of its power from hydro has a supply that varies with the water year, and the shortfall is bought in. That makes the household tariff partly a function of something nobody controls, and it means the regulator's own framing, that prices had fallen before they rose, is a description of a cycle rather than a trend. The practical reading for an owner is not to assume the April figure is a new plateau, in either direction, and to treat utilities as a variable cost rather than a fixed one in any projection running more than a year out.