- The importance of energy to human development cannot be over-emphasised.
- ECREEE is committed to the sustainability of renewable energy in the region
During the closing ceremony of the 7th Edition of the ECOWAS Sustainable Energy Forum, organised in collaboration with Nigeria’s Ministry of Power on Tuesday, The Executive Director ECREE, Mr Francis Simpore, reaffirmed the commission’s commitment to ensure the sustainability of renewable energy by bringing together key stakeholders in the energy sector to discuss and proffer solutions to the energy challenges in member states. The Executive Director, in his remark, said, “Our strategic objective is to integrate the operation of the Community’s national power grids into a unified regional electricity market to ensure a stable, regular, and reliable supply of competitively priced electricity to the citizens of the ECOWAS member States in the medium term.”
He added that “The ECOWAS Commission specialised energy agency together with key stakeholders like the ministry of power among others, are working tirelessly to address power challenges. We plan to achieve this objective by promoting and developing power generation and transmission facilities and equipment and coordinating electricity trade among the ECOWAS member states.”
In his closing remarks, Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Malam Abubakar Aliyu, expressed his appreciation to the ECOWAS commission for hosting ESEF in Nigeria while noting that the importance of energy to human development cannot be over-emphasised. Also, Mr Alexandre Monteiro, Minister of Industry, Trade and Energy Cape Verde, appreciated ECREE for the privilege to host the eighth editions of ESEF and Nigeria for its hospitality. Also, the 8th edition of the forum will be hosted in Cape Verde in 2023. In his remark, he said, “I want to thank ECREE for organising this forum for its member states to provide solutions to the long-standing challenges of energy in West Africa. We learnt and discussed a lot to take home and work with it for sustainable energy in our country’s energy sector. We are also happy to host the next edition of ESEF in Cape Verde and promise a warm reception because hospitality is part of what we stand for”.
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