Almaty, Kazakhstan – As part of its work to build capacities of the CA countries to develop national energy sector models, the European Union (EU) funded SECCA project has set up the Regional Group on Modelling consisting of two young professionals from each Beneficiary Country and delivered three regional trainings on energy modelling in the period from September 2024 to January 2025. These trainings aimed to transfer the basic concepts, and the theoretical and practical approaches, related to analysing and modelling complex energy systems at the national and regional level.

The third and final regional training on model-based energy and climate analysis took place this week from 28 to 31 January 2025. It gathered the young professionals and national experts from line ministries and agencies of the Central Asian (CA) countries. They learned about technical practices for quantitative modelling analysis and their links with the preparation of strategic documents and integrated energy and climate plans.

By convening these regional trainings, the SECCA project intends to create a long-lasting virtuous bridge between the SECCA project activities and the local decision-makers, improve the local system-thinking and the knowledge-based data-driven decision making in the energy and climate sectors, enhance the technical and policy dialogue among the different stakeholders within each country, and among the CA countries, in the energy and climate fields, and generate practical impacts (improved capacities) that go beyond the duration of the SECCA project.

The first training was held on 24-27 September 2024, while the second training took place on 11-13 December 2024.