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Article: A CHARGED LOOK AT GEORGIAN GRIDLOCK
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2004
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In the late 1990s, the American-owned company AES Corp. acquired
Telasi, which used to distribute electricity in Tbilisi, the capital
of the former Soviet republic of Georgia. For as long as residents
remember, the system of supplying and receiving electricity had
devolved into a farce, with people risking their lives trying to
connect to any live wire. The grids were overloaded, and outages were
common.
Paul Devlin's "Power Trip" documents the new AES-Telasi's attempt
to restore order to (and collect payment from) the city's electricity
subscribers, 90 percent of whom are delinquent in their payments. At
the start of the film, things already look iffy for both the
Georgians and the ...