The Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS Centre for Renewable and Energy Efficiency has restated its commitment to ensuring sustainable energy across Member States by 2030.
Executive Director of the Centre Francis Simpore, made this known in Abuja, during the closing ceremony of the seventh edition of ECOWAS Sustainable Energy Forum 2022.
He explained that sustainability will bring together key stakeholders in the energy sector to discuss and proffer solutions to the energy challenges in member states, adding that He also added that the Sustainable Energy Forum has fostered concrete progress in the attainment of the ECOWAS region’s sustainable energy targets.
Also speaking, Nigeria’s Minister of Power Abubakar Aliyu, expressed his appreciation to the ECOWAS commission for hosting the Sustainable Energy Forum in Nigeria while noting that the importance of energy to human development cannot be over-emphasised.
