AFSEC Establishment of AFSEC mandated by declarations of the African Ministers of Energy, March 2006 and Feb 2008, as a subsidiary body of AFREC Inaugurated 27 February 2008, in Accra, Ghana Statutes and rules of procedure approved Election of office bearers Formation by election of the management committee Approval of a three-year plan of action and budget Appointment of the Executive Secretary (with cooperation of Eskom, South Africa)

AFSEC Council [all members] Management Committee Technical Committees Secretariat Statutory Members of AFSEC (National Electrotechnical Committees) Elect President Vice Presidents Treasurer + 10 Members Chairmen of Technical Committees Appoint Executive Secretary STRUCTURE OF AFSEC

Membership Statutory members: National Electrotechnical committees Affiliate members: –Regional Economic Communities –Organizations with an interest in the electric power sector –Union of Producers, Transporters, Distributors of Electric Power in Africa (UPDEA) –African Energy Commission (AFREC)

Management Committee 10 sub-regional representatives North Africa: Representatives of the National Committees of Egypt and Libya Central Africa: No members. Yet to be elected West Africa: Representatives of the National Committees of Ghana and Benin [President and 1 st and 3 rd Vice President from Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria and Senegal respectively] East Africa: Representative of the National Committee of Sudan, with one other yet to be elected [2 nd Vice President from Kenya] Southern Africa: Representative of the National Committee of South Africa, with one other yet to be elected

Office Bearers Mon. KOUTOUA Claude: [CIE, Côte d’Ivoire] President of AFSEC Mr. Charles OKORO: 1st Vice President [SON, Nigeria] Mrs. Evah ODUOR: [KEBS, Kenya] 2nd Vice President Mon. GUEYE Mamadou : [Senegal] 3rd Vice President Treasurer: Yet to be elected

Progress since 2008 Cooperation between IEC and AFSEC signed Some funding received from the African Energy Commission (AFREC) budget New affiliate members –Southern African Power Pool –Eastern African Power Pool Application for statutory membership from National Committee of Namibia Agreement with Eskom (SA) for interim secretariat support extended to March 2011

Facing the challenges Payment of membership fees –Lack of sufficient funding to make progress in 2009, no general assembly Formalising the reporting and accountability relationship between AFSEC and AU/AFREC Attracting new members –Formation of national electrotechnical committees in more African States –payment of membership fees Indecision on permanent headquarters and permanent staffing

Short term goals Technical workshop August 2010 to establish limited number of TCs taking account of members priorities, needs and capacity to participate General Assembly August 2010 Increase national committee membership [aspiration at least three per sub region] Affiliate membership RECs and power pools [All] Standardization training/capacity building workshop for TC members [donor funding application] target Nov 2010 [?] Review and revise the funding model Clarify and formalise the relationship between AFSEC, AFREC and AU/NEPAD Roadmap for establishing a permanent secretariat

Demonstrate value-added outputs Outputs of technical committees: for example –Agreement on IEC standards already de facto harmonized through common usage among members –Identification of IEC standards that have been used in more than one country with adaptation to African conditions (tropical climate/temperature extremes/altitude, etc) –Identify standards in common usage for referring to AU as basis for technical regulations (e.g. electrical safety, energy efficiency)

Where do Power Pools fit in? Power pools are entitled to be represented in AFSEC as affiliate members Power pools can use their existing structure to debate the needs for harmonization of electrotechnical standards among their members Proposals can be given as input to the work of AFSEC TCs, to be considered as the basis for continental harmonized standards Power pools can lobby voting members within their region who are represented in AFSEC to influence the decisions ( also on IEC activities) Power pools could provide technical committee members in addition to those from the statutory members

AFSEC and African power pools AFSEC should have already been operational to support the current intensive programme of regional infrastructure projects General application of international standards should now be the norm for suppliers of equipment and materials (but are appropriate assurance procedures in place ?) credibility of test reports from internationally accredited test houses for imported equipment) More ‘subtle’ standardization needs for successful operation of power pools –Energy market communications [Data exchange standards] [current new work] –Energy management systems –Reference standards for grid codes (metering, SCADA protocols, power quality measurement)

proposals Each Power pool joins AFSEC as an affiliate member : SAPP and EAPP have already joined Each power pool to deliberate on the standardization priorities and make proposals to AFSEC Identify from its membership individuals who can contribute as members of the AFSEC technical committees Consideration given to standardization needs being an agenda item on the coordinating meeting of the power pools

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