Construction management · Tbilisi
Somebody has to be on the owner’s side of the fence.
ENGIA Green manages the construction of utility-scale solar and wind plants in Georgia on behalf of the company that owns them — from the constructability review through to the day the punch list reaches zero.
- Under contract
- 39.3 MWinstalled DC, across two plants
- Expected mandates
- 27.75 MWtwo further plants at Terjola
- First commercial operation
- Oct 2026Udabno Solar PV, 6.4 MWp
The distinction
EPC, or EPCm
An EPC contractor takes the build. It designs, procures, constructs, and it signs off its own work.
An EPCm contractor manages that contractor on the owner’s behalf. It reviews the design it did not draw, witnesses the tests it does not run, certifies the payments it does not receive, and raises the non-conformance nobody wants raised.
On Udabno and Iliatsminda, THE OHM Georgia builds and ENGIA Green holds the construction management mandate. The point of the arrangement is simple: nobody marks their own homework.
This matters most to whoever is lending against the plant. An independent party certifying progress, quantities and commissioning results is a standard condition of project finance, and it is easier to have in place from mobilisation than to retrofit at the first drawdown.
Under management
Four plants, 67.05 MW
Two mandates are contracted and two are expected. The programme below is the same one reported to the owner — the difference is that this version is public, so it can be checked against what actually happens.
Capacity throughout is installed: MW DC for photovoltaic plant, turbine nameplate for wind. Grid export in MW AC is given alongside it on every project. They are different numbers and it is worth being explicit about which one is being quoted.
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The filled portion of each bar is time elapsed against the construction window. It is not a measure of physical progress, and it should not be read as one — progress against the programme is reported monthly to the owner, not published here.
How the work is controlled
Three things we will not compromise on.
Written down, or it did not happen
Inspection and test plans with real hold points, a non-conformance register that gets closed rather than archived, and a daily site report that says what was actually done.
Grid first, not last
Energisation is the milestone most likely to slip and the one least under the contractor’s control. GSE coordination starts months before the works, not at the end of them.
Measured against the yield study
Commissioning verifies the performance ratio against what the plant was financed on — not against what the contractor expected to achieve.