Online – The European Union funded project “Sustainable Energy Connectivity in Central Asia (SECCA)” held the Initial Training Workshop on Energy Modelling for the specialists of the Ministry of Energy of Turkmenistan and other relevant agencies, as well as the faculty members of the State Energy Institute of Turkmenistan. This online event aimed to enhance the preparedness of the national specialists ahead of in-person training workshops on energy modelling planned to take place in the country in April 2025.

The online and in-person workshops follow three Regional Trainings on Model-based Integrated Energy and Climate Analyses organised by the SECCA project for the young professionals from Central Asia on 24-27 September 2024, 11-13 December 2024, and 28-31 January 2025. The first and the third regional trainings were also attended by the project’s state partners and national coordinators in the beneficiary countries. Based on the information provided during these regional events and considering the state of application of modelling in developing sustainable energy strategies for Turkmenistan, representatives of Turkmenistan specifically asked the SECCA project to hold these training workshops in the country for the national specialists.

Among other, the work of the SECCA project on energy modelling focuses on building capacities of the Central Asian countries to develop national energy sector models and improving local systems thinking and knowledge (data) based decision making in the energy and climate sectors.