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THE WEST AFRICAN ENERGY EFFICIENCY POLICY: USING EFFICIENCY TO ACHIEVE

UNIVERSAL ENERGY ACCESS Paper and presentation Mr M. KAPPIAH, Executive Director, ECOWAS/ECREEE Mr I. Soumaïla, ECREEE Dr. A. RIALHE, Mrs C. CLAIN, AERE Mr E. BLAUSTEIN EEDAL 2013

7th CONFERENCE

Our presentation

•  The Energy and Development challenge in West Africa

•  The political response

•  5 concrete initiatives

•  Conclusion

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The ECOWAS region

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Côte  d’Ivoire

Cap  Vert

15 countries, rapidly growing population of 300 million An immense development challenge

Job creation Education

Health Drinking water

Gender equality Social equity

Environment protection

In a weak institutional context

A multifaceted energy crisis

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Few West African countries have institutional tools to capture the potential for energy saving

Only half have institutions responsible for concrete energy efficiency programmes

60% of the population has no access to electricity

Even where the electricity grid is available, power cuts average 56 days per year Distribution losses vary from 15% to 40%

Impacts on development, health, security, economy

A multifaceted energy crisis (2)

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80% of the population uses traditional biomass cooking

Supply of cooking fuels in danger in the long term Impacts on development, health, security, economy Mainly for women and children

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A huge potential for savings

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Possible savings = 20% of current electricity consumption, through only two measures:

- phasing out incandescent lamps

- reducing electricity distribution losses to under 10%

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The policy answer

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-  Adoption of the White Paper on Access to Energy in 2006

-  Creation of ECREEE in 2007: Ecowas Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

-  The SEEA-WA project - financed by the ACP-EU Energy Facility, UNDP, ADEME - supported the development of a regional Energy Efficiency Policy. Approved in 2012 by the region’s Heads of State.

Focus on policy, capacity building, awareness raising, and finance. Action plan of 5 initiatives: Lighting; Electricity Distribution Losses; Cooking;

Standards and Labels; Buildings

The 5 initiatives

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Keys for successful implementation:

Partners An action plan A financing framework

The SEEA-WA project organises regular meetings for each initiative, with representatives from the 15 countries

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WACCA – The West African Clean Cooking Alliance

•  The objective -  Ensure access to efficient, sustainable and modern

cooking fuels and devices, by 2030, for the entire ECOWAS population

•  How? -  Implement policies and regulatory framework,

enhance capacity building on clean cooking initiatives -  Support and harmonise S&L in the region -  Promote networking and knowledge sharing

•  Who? -  ECREEE + ETC-Energia, GACC, Austrian Energy

Agency, GERES, GIZ and ICEED 9

The building initiative

•  The objective -  Improve building energy performance

•  How? -  A general study, a state of the art, has been

realised -  A general draft, for energy aspects of the a

building code, is under preparation, to be discussed among ECOWAS countries

•  Who? -  The SEEA-WA partners, ECREEE,

representatives of the countries

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The lighting initiative

•  The objective -  Replace incandescent bulbs with high efficiency

bulbs, as in Ghana. Phase out inefficient incandescent lamps by 2020

•  How? -  A MEPS will be proposed -  The enlighten initiative of the UNEP joined the

process, bringing a proven method •  Who?

-  The SEEA-WA partners, ECREEE, UNEP (en.lighten initiative), representatives of the countries

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The electricity distribution initiative

•  The objective -  Decrease the electricity distribution losses from

40% maximum to under 10% by 2020 -  Savings would free 2 000 MW of capacity

•  How? -  An analysis of current situation has been done and

technical work is on-going to select actions and prepare financing

-  Actions must be both technical and commercial •  Who?

-  The SEEA-WA partners, ECREEE, the WAPP

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The standards and labelling initiative

•  The objective -  For energy using equipment, define consumer

labels for energy efficiency - MEPS, Minimum Energy Performance Standards - by end of 2014

•  How? -  Establish a new Regional Technical Committee on

S&L -  Work ongoing on a MEPS for the lighting initiative

•  Who? -  The SEEA-WA partners, ECREEE and

representatives of the countries

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About the finance

•  At the beginning, an initiative

•  Now a cross cutting action, with a focal point

•  Focused on climate finance

•  But also financial instruments of the Montreal Protocol on ozone depleting substances, possible funds for the CILSS for cooking, etc.

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Conclusion

•  The process is on-going

•  If you want to join, don’t hesitate!

•  More information available on http://www.ecreee.org/fr/node/3942

(general information)

http://www.ecreee.org/fr/node/10307 (specific for cooking)

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