As part of its "Regional Off-Grid Electrification Project (ROGEP)," the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) organize a regional validation workshop for the Draft Standards for Electrodomestic Appliances and Regional Standard for Plug and Play Solar Home Systems Kits. May 21 – 22, 2019 in Plateau at the Hotel Fleur de Lys -Dakar, Senegal.

Key stakeholders from national standards bodies, ministries of energy experts and other regional and international representatives will attend an important meeting for the ECOWAS member-states, with tremendous potential to developing renewable energy.

A press release by ECREEE stated the importance for consumers to have confidence in the products. And that they can access important information they can rely on to decide whether to invest in solar products and electrical appliances. With a broader agreement in product quality standards, the Sahel region and West African countries can benefit private-sector with access to the market. ECREEE through ROGEP and AGoSEREE–AO is developing standards for the region.

The workshop will address the following objectives:

• Present comments and contributions from participants from across the region

• Validate draft of three regional electrical appliances standards

• Validate draft of ECOWAS Regional standard for plug-and-play Solar Home Systems kits

• Validate strategy for implementing regional standards at national level

According to the objectives the following results are expected -The validation and submission of the Regional Standards for Household:

• Appliances and Regional Standard for Plug and Play Solar Kits drafts documents validated for submission to ECOSHAM

• Development of a report with recommendations for the validation workshop

• Validation of the strategy to implement the regional standards at the national levels

• The Electrotechnical Committee (THC5) to begin work on harmonizing for all EE and RE standards, as instructed

The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE), as part of its "Regional Off-Grid Electrification Project (ROGEP)" funded by World Bank and Clean Technology Funds, and the initiative “Improving Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Sector Governance in West Africa (AGoSEREE-AO)" funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).