Price for natural gas may be increase, energy companies are demanding increase of tariffs due to the lari exchange rate . Gocha Shonia, a member of the Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission, neither denies nor confirms that the price of natural gas may increase, but says that the Commission will discuss several applications and the decision will be taken by the beginning of summer.

"There are 4 tariff applications, one from the transport company and three from the gas distribution companies. Accordingly, each of them contains very extensive information. Therefore, predicting what the tariff will be is difficult now, because the department is still working on it , "said Gocha Shonia..