The Black Sea Regional Agency for Energy Management (BSRAEM) has been established by the Union of Bulgarian Black Sea Local Authorities (UBBSLA) as part of the SAVE Programme of the European Commission DG "Energy and Transport".
The activities of BSRAEM cover the territory of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast by means of collaboration with the National Agency for Energy Efficiency and with the Regional Energy Centers in Bulgaria.

The activities of BSRAEM include:

• Exchange of information and experience: Creation of the data base for common use;
• Collecting information about domestic and foreign loans and grants for investments to reduce energy consumption and improve the environment;
• Education in the field of efficient energy utilization, exchange of experience concerning energy efficiency projects;
• Exchange of information about public and private energy institutions operating in Bulgaria;
• Organization of training courses, especially with participation of foreign experts;
• Consulting.
• Campaigns to promote sustainable development and rational use of energy;
• Collection of all information concerning energy projects, programmes and related activities which will be analyzed, categorized and promoted towards all possible users.

BSRAEM elaborates studies in the field of composition of particular proposals for EC funded programmes in all fields of interest - energy saving, renewable energy sources, energy networks, etc.

BSRAEM supports, coordinates, promotes and disseminates successful practices such as the street revamping project, the on-site energy exploitation of the agro-industrial waste processing, energy crops, etc.

Database development: collection, categorization and dissemination of all information that exists or will arise in the process of the Agency's operation that related to energy issues in the broadest possible sense.

Areas of expertise: changing citizens' behaviour, dissemination of information, energy auditing, promotion of technology, energy efficiency in buildings, solar energy.