Meta Data
Title in national language: 
Enerji resurslarından səmərəli istifadə və enerji effektivliyi haqqında Azərbaycan Respublikasının Qanunu
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
Yes
Draft Year: 
2021
Effective Start Year: 
2022
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Law
Economic Sector: 
Energy
Energy Types: 
All, Other
Issued by: 
Ministry of Energy
Overall Summary: 
The 2021 Law on Effective Energy Utilization and Energy Efficiency aims to regulate the relations in the area of energy saving and improved energy effectiveness and to establish the legal, economic and organisational basis required in order to stimulate energy efficiency and effective use of energy in Azerbaijan.
Efficiency
EE priorities: 
The Draft law establishes a series of guiding principles for state policy in the field of energy efficiency. In this respect state policy shall amongst others be based on:  protecting human life and health, social and living conditions, and the environment during extraction, production, transportation, transmission and distribution of energy resources;  carrying out state regulation in the area of energy efficiency;  stimulating the use of renewable energy sources through economic support in the area of energy efficiency;  stimulating and supporting energy saving and improved energy efficiency;  mandatory energy audits for new and rehabilitated building;  promotion of public awareness on the economic, environmental and social benefits of ener- gy saving;  international cooperation in the field of energy saving;  incentives for the creation and application new energy saving technologies.
EE action plans: 
The scope of measures provided for by the Draft law includes:  metering of energy consumption;  establishment energy consumption and effectiveness standards for construction projects;  establishment of an mandatory energy efficiency register, in particular focusing on register- ing energy consumption in construction projects;  promotion of public awareness on the economic, environmental and social benefits of ener- gy saving;  some incentives for economic incentives for energy efficiency;  standardization in the field of energy resources utilization;  certification of products in connection with the energy resources;  state energy audits;  energy performance certification of certain products, processes and services;  energy efficiency fund and other financial instruments (mainly state budget);  some incentives for foreign investments;  international co-operation;  education and training.
Governance
National policy structure: 
According to the Draft law the state shall in particular be responsible for the following in the field of energy efficiency:  adopt energy consumption standards and identify actual energy consumption of technological processes and construction facilities;  establishing rules related to state energy audits;  establishing economic-financial incentive mechanisms for the energy saving;  establishing the fund on the energy efficiency, including its rules of procedure;  establishing energy efficiency standards of different equipment and technology;  proving budget financing for relevant investment programs, energy saving projects.