In July 2019, the Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission (GNERC) introduced changes to electricity supply and consumption rules and procedures, among which the prices and terms of connection of a new customer to the distribution network. Customers are considered as new if they have never been connected to the distribution network before and electricity has never been supplied to them. According to the decree of GNERC, 2008 (18/09/2008, decree #20) the fee of connecting new customers to the electricity distribution network was identical for each municipality, and was in the range of 400-416,000 GEL. Based on the chan...

Engineers at Buffalo University (NY) have recently designed a new system which will help to cool buildings in a crowded metropolitan city without consuming electricity. The new method is known as radiative or passive cooling because it does not require batteries or other sources of electricity to initiate cooling. The system consists of alumina films, which are installed at the bottom of a specially designed solar ‘shelters’ which helps the building to keep cool. The system works in the following way: the films help its surrounding to be cool and absorb heat from the air. The films stay cool as the heat dissipates through thermal...