COUNTRY ASSESSMENTS OF EE PROMOTION AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS Country-level activities to promote and implement EE programmes and projects are essential to support EE as a national policy. For these activities to be successful, it is imperative that directional, institutional, financing, technical, and policy support are present and well-functioning. To this end, this section of the Assessment Report tries to summarize, enumerate, present, and assess interventions at country level in terms of projects and programmes geared at promoting and implementing EE.
CENTRAL ASIA
EE policies, institutions, actors, programmes and projects for the following Central Asian countries Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan - are discussed.
KAZAKHSTAN Kazakhstan is the largest economy in Central Asia. The country’s impressive average annual growth rate of 9 to 11 per cent in 2001 and 2007 (IEA, 2009)
EE enabling legislation and policy Presidential Message to Kazakhstan’s People 2010 This determines the main economic achievements of Kazakhstan in the last ten years, and gives priority targets and indicators for the nearest decade. One of the top priorities, in particular, is to reduce the level of GDP energy intensity in the country to at least by 25 per cent in 2020 through organizational, structural and technical improvements in the country’s economy. Package Plan on Energy Saving for 2009-2010 This Plan was approved in 26 February 2009 to improve organizational, legislative, informational and educational directions of Kazakhstan’s EE policy. Standardization and certification issues are also one of the top priorities of this document. The development of regional EE programs is another key element of the Plan.
17 Part 2 Country Assessments
A short overview of the country is first presented. Directional support to EE at national level, in terms of legislations and policy, follows. Institutional arrangements for EE promotion and implementation are also summarized and presented in tables as appropriate. These arrangements involved national actors and international organizations. Moreover, programmes, projects and activities to promote and implement EE are presented. While efforts are made to exhaust and list all EE interventions, we acknowledged that the list does not represent all of those. There are many projects supported by international donors, for instance, that are not directly listed as EE projects but have components for EE.
reflects not only a jump in earnings from oil and gas exports, but also the current growth in industry, construction, agriculture and communications. The energy sector holds a considerable part of the country’s productive potential by providing the economy with large quantities of both sources of fuel and hard currency from exports. Total primary energy consumption in the country has risen from 40.31 Mtoe in 2000 to 66.46 Mtoe in 2007 (IEA, 2009). EE in Kazakhstan can be viewed as a function of its cold climate, extensive territory, and traditional energy intensive industrial structure which currently translate to low level of EE. This pictures a huge potential for EE in the country which has been estimated at 23 to 25 Mtoe savings (ECE/ESCAP, 2005, Kasymova, 2008).