Type of Services

Component B: Electricity and Gas sectors

• Provision of policy advice on EU best practices and advice on primary and secondary legislation in the Electricity & Gas sectors.
• Policy advice on harmonisation of electricity and gas standards and codes, including the definition of a strategy for harmonisation; drafting of a road map on the harmonisation process with action plans for each country, and provision of support in their implementation; and the provision of capacity building programmes to the national standardisation bodies in this field; the creation and support to institutional structures in the fields of electricity and gas and awareness raising to industry and national authorities of the benefits of harmonisation.
• Provision of support for the improvement of energy cross border trade and cooperation, including an analysis of the legal framework for cross-border trade, promotion of cooperation between partner countries, facilitation of communication between stakeholders and capacity building for the Transmission System Operators in this respect.
• Provision of support for sustainable and efficient energy transit infrastructures, including analysis of gas losses on main gas transit lines; prioritising of interventions concerning gas losses and planning of emergency actions; analysis of costs and benefits of different surveillance techniques; identification of and intervention in priority emergency areas; introduction of state-of-the-art infrastructure, management and surveillance systems; introduction of the European methodologies and methane Leakage Detection And Repair systems (LDAR), improvement of electricity utility management, metering, billing and losses reduction plans; and facilitate access to modern experience in these fields.  
• Provision of support to the monitoring of the Status Report (Baku Initiative Monitoring Framework).

Component C: Sustainable Energy

• Support to primary and secondary legislation enabling a favourable investment climate for RE and EE, including on pricing policies and targeted subsidies

• Organisation of fact-finding missions
• Preparation of baseline survey and update of country institutional and regulatory frameworks
• Development and operation of Ad-Hoc Expert Facility (AHEF)

Indicative projects implemented are:

• Capacity building of the personnel of energy service companies (ESCO) in Armenia
• Assistance in setting up an operational framework for Energy Service Companies (ESCO) in Moldova
• Energy Policy Talks “Measures to enhance energy efficiency among Vulnerable Consumers” in Kiev
• Workshop: Conducting of the capacity building on EU RES & EE Directives and legally binding obligations under the Energy Community Treaty in Georgia
• Organization and conducting of the International Forum “Investments in Renewable Energy for Sustainable Energy Development” in Belarus
• Workshop on Capacity building for financing of EE / RES projects in Armenia and Georgia
• Promotion of investment into the sustainable energy sector in terms of connection to the grid in Belarus
• Regulation and monitoring of investment activities of regulated companies in Moldova
• Improvement of legislative framework of RES in Azerbaijan
• Improvement of the current legislation aimed at RES promotion in heat and electricity generation
• Improving university curricula in the areas of a) energy efficiency in the sectors of energy, industry and buildings, and b) renewable energy sources in Armenia
• Assistance to the Ministry of Economy for the transposition of Directives 2009/72/EC & 2009/73/EC into the national legislation in Moldova
• Development of a road-map for introduction of an energy performance certificates system in the building sector of Armenia, including legal framework and distribution of institutional roles

• Development of the institutional framework for sustainable energy

• Preparation of a training needs assessment in order to develop a detailed capacity building plan
• Development of a capacity building plan
• Support to investment attraction

Component D: Support to statistical cooperation

• Participation in the assessment of the institutional situation and identification of partners and their needs.