Energy and statistics officials from West Africa spent five days in Lomé reviewing 2023 and 2024 energy efficiency indicators, closing with technical validation of a regional data collection strategy.
The ECOWAS Regional Workshop on Energy Efficiency Indicators ran from 5 to 9 October 2026 at Hotel Sarakawa, convened by the ECOWAS Commission through its Directorates of Energy and Mines and of Research and Statistics, alongside the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) and the African Energy Commission (AFREC).
Delegations from Member States’ energy and statistics sectors worked country by country through figures gathered in advance using a harmonized questionnaire.
In a report from the Economic Community of West African States, the Commission’s Resident Representative in Togo, H.E. Madam Dewey Emily Gray, told the opening ceremony that progress on energy efficiency depended on the ability to measure results consistently across Member States.
She pointed to harmonized national data systems and closer cooperation between energy institutions and national statistical offices, saying validated data should strengthen national energy information systems as well as the ECOWAS Energy Information System (EIS) and ECOWREX.
Speaking for AFREC Executive Director, Mr. Abdoulaye Oueddo said reliable, coherent, comparable and timely energy data were essential for planning, public policy, investment mobilization and the monitoring of regional and continental objectives.
He said the workshop needed to move past data collection itself – improving quality, identifying gaps, strengthening national expertise and promoting AFREC’s harmonized methodologies and tools – while building what he described as a sustainable regional community of energy-efficiency experts.
Togo’s Minister Delegate in charge of Energy and Mineral Resources, H.E. Mr. Robert Koffi Messan EKLO, opened the workshop.
He underscored the economic and social value of energy efficiency and the importance of reliable data for measuring policy results and guiding investment, and called on participants to rigorously validate the 2023–2024 data, agree on approaches to the remaining gaps and set realistic action plans.
He reaffirmed Togo’s support for a reliable, harmonized and sustainable regional energy data system.
Discussions over the five days centred on validating available information, identifying where data is missing, formulating recommendations and drafting national roadmaps to improve regular collection, validation and resource mobilization.
The meeting follows the first edition of the ECOWAS Regional Energy Efficiency Report, which covered 2018–2022.
Data reviewed in Lomé will feed preparation of the second edition and, subject to the necessary validation and quality-assurance processes, will also contribute to the ECOWAS Energy Information System, the ECOWREX platform and AFREC’s continental energy statistics.
Organizers also described the workshop as a chance to strengthen dialogue between national energy administrations and statistical institutions and to consolidate a regional network of experts supporting regular, consistent production of energy efficiency indicators.
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