Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan – On 3 December 2025, the Ministry of Energy of the Kyrgyz Republic hosted the Third Meeting of the Inter-Institutional Working Group (IIWG) on ESCO and EPC quality assurance. The IIWG was established by the Ministry of Energy to strengthen energy efficiency (EE) services market and building energy performance certification standards. The event brought together members of the IIWG and the SECCA project experts.

The meeting opened with welcoming remarks from Talgat Asan uulu, Head of the Renewable Energy Development Department of the Ministry of Energy, and Paata Janelidze, SECCA Team Leader.

The first technical presentation delivered by SECCA experts Nicolae Zaharia and Maratbek Cholponkulov offered a legal overview of the current regulatory framework and highlighted the potential for implementing ESCO mechanisms in Kyrgyzstan. This analysis outlined existing regulatory gaps and provided recommendations to support the emergence of an ESCO market, as one of the key tools to achieve sustainable energy-saving in Kyrgyzstan.

Then, SECCA experts Gulsara Kasymova and Mirgul Aidarova detailed the draft Regulation on monitoring and quality control of completed work on energy certification of buildings. This draft Regulation has been developed in accordance with the national Laws “On Energy Saving” and “On Energy Efficiency of Buildings”, and defines conditions and procedure for conducting quality control of building energy performance certificates in Kyrgyzstan. The presentation underscored the importance of robust quality assurance mechanisms to ensure transparency, trust, and standardisation in the country’s EE sector.

The meeting concluded with an open discussion, during which participants exchanged views on the next steps required to support development and operation of ESCOs and enhance energy certification practices in Kyrgyzstan.