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2 Jun 2022

In the third and the fourth quarters of 2021, the concentration in the Demand of the electricity market decreased compared to the corresponding period of the last year, while on the Supply-side it increased in the third quarter and decreased in the fourth quarter of the year. [...] The wholesale market of the natural gas remained highly concentrated in both quarters, less concentrated than in the corresponding period of the previous year In the third and the fourth quarters of 2021, the total supply of oil products increased. [...] The volume of petroleum trade increased in the third and slightly decreased in the fourth quarter of the year, while diesel imports decreased in the third and increased in the fourth quarter of the year. [...] In the consumer segment for the same period, the consumption indexes dropped below the thresholds for a highly concentrated (from the 2020 levels – 2,572 and 2,437) in the third quarter of the year, to a HHI value of 1,970, and in the fourth quarter of the year to a HHI value of 1,812 (Figure 13). [...] The weighted average diesel import prices in USD increased by 61.7% and 76.8% in the third and fourth quarters of 2021, on an annual basis, whereas the prices in GEL increased by 65.7% and 71.1% in the third and fourth quarters (from 39 ¢ – 1.20 GEL – and 41 ¢ – 1.31 GEL – per liter in the third and fourth quarters of 2020, respectively, to 63 ¢ – 1.98 GEL – and 72 ¢ – 2.25 GEL – per liter in 2021.

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Georgia