The Centre's activities aim at developing the co-operation between the Black Sea region countries and the European Union in the field of energy and climate change mitigation. This is achieved through a close partnership with all the Black Sea countries, allowing to be well informed about the countries' national trends and developments.

The main fields of activity of the Centre are:

• Harmonization of the energy legislation of the BSR countries and of Bulgaria in particular, with the EU legislation;
• Security of the energy supply;
• Promotion of renewable energy and climate protection;
• Energy efficiency and rational use of energy;
• Networking, exchange of experience and dissemination of energy-related information.

The research and dissemination activities carried out by the Centre include:

• collection and analysis of data at national, local, and company level;
• development and application of models, elaboration of forecasts and scenarios;
• cost-benefit analyses of policies and feasibility studies of energy projects;
• networking of policy and market actors in the Black Sea Region countries;
• drafting of legislative documents;
• technology transfer;
• training and dissemination of information.

The organization's project record includes more than 60 projects, funded under various EC programmes: territorial cooperation programmes, Framework programmes for RTD (FP5, FP6, FP7), Intelligent Energy – Europe (EIE), Horizon 2020, and others. Additionally, BSERC has worked on initiatives, funded by USAID, the World Bank, CIDA - Canada, EBRD, and the Bulgarian Government.