Watch POWER TRIP on Global Voices on PBS WORLD

Amid pervasive blackouts and corruption, an American energy company purchases a formerly state-run electricity company in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Cultures clash, tempers flare, and managers and locals tussle as a struggling nation attempts to build itself from beneath the rubble of Soviet collapse.

”POWER TRIP, Paul Devlin’s superbly balanced and organized documentary about the politics of electricity in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, offers a cautionary reminder that the basic services we take for granted in the United States are often luxuries elsewhere,” The New York Times

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POWER TRIP airs Sunday, June 14 at 10:00 PM on Global Voices on PBS WORLD (check local listings).