EECA helps APEC economies work with energy indicators
A team from EECA were key players in developing and delivering an international workshop called ‘Applying energy indicators in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies and capacity development’.
Robert Tromop, Manager of EECA’s Monitoring and Technical Team, Harbans Aulakh, Senior Monitoring Advisor, and Marion Pahalawatta, Monitoring Analyst, helped put New Zealand’s proposal to organise a training workshop on developing and applying energy indicators for policy development and evaluation into action.
Robert is also Project Overseer for the APEC Energy Standards Information System (APEC-ESIS) and chairs the Project Steering Committee for APEC-ESIS, which is made up of economies and organisations that contribute to the support and development of APEC-ESIS.
Hands-on
World-class experts provided hands-on training for 41 participants from 17 APEC countries who attended the workshop. Topics included identifying the key factors that explain energy use and energy efficiency variations over time and across APEC countries, setting relevant targets and collecting data for meaningful indicators.
“The workshop focused on identifying and conceptualising and then putting into operation ‘lead indicators’ that will tell us in advance of problems, and point to what will improve the situation,” says Harbans. “We discussed the importance and mechanics of developing detailed end use data and how collaboration can help economies identify and work through data and methodological issues.”
Working together
“The workshop involved the active cooperation of the International Energy Agency, the Expert Group on Energy Data Analysis, the Expert Group on Energy Efficiency and Conservation, the Institute of Energy Economics Japan, and especially APEC who provided budget to fund travel and accommodation for participants from developing countries,” says Robert.
“There was a very positive response to the work we did together. It was felt that learning workshops like this could be held more often, especially to support developing economies.”
