Smart Grid Development is a fundamental part of modernizing Georgia's energy system. A smart grid combines traditional power networks with digital technologies, ensuring more efficient energy distribution, loss reduction, and integration of renewable sources (solar, wind). Legally, this is an innovative field encompassing data protection, cybersecurity, smart metering, and decentralized generation regulation. Investors and tech companies involved in smart grid development need to know how legislation regulates new technologies and how investments are recovered within the tariff methodology.
Energy and technology law experts at Legal.ge offer legal support for smart grid projects. Services include:
- Regulatory compliance analysis: Legal monitoring of obligations to implement smart meters and compliance with technical regulations.
- Data protection and privacy: Legally securing the collection, processing, and protection of energy data (consumption history, personal info) in compliance with GDPR standards and local law.
- Procurement and contract management: Concluding contracts with smart technology vendors and protecting intellectual property rights on software.
- Distributed generation regulation: Ensuring operation within the legal framework of Net Metering and Microgrids.
- Investment protection: Liaising with GNERC to ensure smart grid investments are reflected in the tariff base and yield returns.
Smart grid development services are relevant in the following situations:
- A distribution company (e.g., Telasi) implements an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and needs to develop a personal data protection policy for subscribers.
- A developer builds a "smart district" integrating solar panels and an energy management system. A legal model for microgrid operation needs to be created.
- An IT company develops software for energy balancing and needs clarification on licensing issues.
- An investor funds a grid automation project and requests a guarantee that the regulator will recognize these costs as efficient investments.
The field is regulated by the Law on Energy and Water Supply, the Law on Personal Data Protection, and GNERC's resolution "On Approval of Supply and Consumption Rules." Implementing smart meters is a mandatory requirement under the Association Agreement with the EU.
Collaborating with a Legal.ge specialist ensures that your technological innovation is legal and secure. Smart grids are the future of energy, and our lawyers will help you be part of this future without legal risks.
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