Past Events

Vienna Energy Forum 2013

ECREEE and a high-level ECOWAS delegation, led by the ECOWAS President, will participate in the forthcoming Vienna Energy Forum, which will take place from the 28 to 30 May 2013. The President will announce the voluntary contribution of ECOWAS to the Sustainable Energy For All Initiative (SE4ALL). The voluntary commitment reflects the outcomes of the ECOWAS High Level Energy Forum, which took place from 29 to 31 October 2012, in Accra, Ghana.

Training on Small and Medium Scale Hydropower Project Development in Austria

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The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) are organizing a training on small to medium scale hydropower development for experts from the ECOWAS region and other parts of Sub Saharan Africa. The training will combine theoretical lessons, hydro site visits, as well as meetings with plant operators and owners, consultants, hydro power generation associations, manufacturers and financiers.

Integrating Clean Energy Regulation into evolving energy markets

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), the Cape Verdean Agência de Regulação Económica (ARE), the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA) and the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) are jointly organizing a 3-day technical workshop on Integrating Clean Energy Regulation in Evolving Energy Markets under a West Africa Regional Partnership funded by the United States Agency for Interna

High level conference on women's economic empowerment through energy access opens in Freetown

A high level conference on women's economic empowerment through energy access in the countries of the Mano River Union (MRU) opened on Monday, 7th May 2013 in Freetown, Sierra Leone.  The conference, one of the series of activities to mark the 40th anniversary of the signing of the MRU treaty, was attended by Ministers of energy and gender from Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Liberia, the four countries of the MRU.

Regional Workshop on the West Africa Clean Cooking Alliance (WACCA)

The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE), the ECOWAS Commission, the Ministry of Mines and Energy of Burkina Faso, with the  support of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, the EU Energy Facility, the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves, the Governments of Austria and

REGIONAL WORKSHOP OF ECOWAS INITIATIVE ON ENERGY SAVING LIGHTING

As part of implementation the ECOWAS policy on energy efficiency, ECREEE and UNEP/GEF/en.lighten organized a workshop on the 22 April 2013 in Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso to launch the activities of the efficient lighting initiative in West African.

2nd Technical Committee Meeting of the ECOWAS Observatory for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

ECREEE is organizing the 2nd Technical Committee and National data collection Meeting of the ECOWAS Observatory for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECOWREX), from the 28th to 29th of October in Accra, Ghana. It will be followed by the ECOWAS-GFSE-GEF-UNIDO high level forum scheduled from the 29th to 31th of October, during which the Observatory will be launched.The agenda for the meeting includes:

2nd Biomass West & Central Africa Congress 2012

2nd Biomass West & Central Africa Congress 2012 is now scheduled to hold in Accra, Ghana from 04th to 05th October 2012. This premier networking and content-driven congress will gather key representatives from both the Regional Government Authorities & Industry stakeholders from forestry, wood pellets, wood chips, agri based biomass and bioenergy power generation.

ECOWAS Renewable Energy Investment and Business Forum

ECREEE and the African Development Bank (AfDB) jointly organised the ECOWAS Renewable Energy Investment and Business Forum in Dakar, Senegal from the 27th to 28th of September 2012 . The Forum which is the first major milestone under the ECOWAS Renewable Energy Investment and Business Initiative (EREI) brought together over 90 participants from the ECOWAS region, Europe and the USA.

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