BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 7. The Energy Community Secretariat (EnCS) will focus on assisting Georgia’s renewable energy sector, electricity market and energy efficiency in 2022, Svitlana Karpyshyna, Head of the Eastern Partnership Assistance Unit at the EnCS, told Trend.
According to Karpyshyna, this year the EnCS will monitor the transposition and implementation of EU and Energy Community acquis in Georgia, and organize workshops, events, and capacity building exercises in the country.
“The mandate of the EnCS is to help Georgia and the other Contracting Parties to implement reforms in the energy sector and in the energy-related environment and climate areas,” she said.
The main focus of the EnCS’s cooperation in Georgia in 2022 will be the transposition of the Clean Energy for all Europeans package adopted by the Energy Community Ministerial Council at its meeting in Belgrade on November 30, 2021, Karpyshyna added.
As she explained, the package covers legislation in the area of energy efficiency, renewables, governance, electricity market design, and electricity and gas security of supply rules, to enter into force in the next years.
The EnCS has already proposed to the Georgian side that it can support the transposition and implementation of this package, Karpyshyna said.
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