Preliminary and Diagnostic Study on the Implementation of Measures for Reducing Energy Consumption of Gabon’s State-owned Buildings

Like other African countries, Gabon is facing problems of inefficient energy and water consumption in various economic sectors, including public buildings. This assignment involved providing advice on energy policy orientation and its objective was to help the Gabonese government analyze the state-owned building stock’s energy-consumption situation and identify and then prioritize various actions to be taken to really control energy and water expenses of the administrative buildings, by implementing the Telecommunication, Water and Energy Expenditure Management Program (or PMDTE for short in French).  

As part of this assignment, Econoler carried out the following tasks:

• Holding meetings with the Ministry of Budgeting, the PMDTE, the public buildings technical and management service staff, the Ministry of Energy, the Société d’Energie et d’Eau du Gabon (the Energy and Water Company of Gabon, or SEEG for short) and other stakeholders to gather information to better understand the energy issue related to state-owned buildings.
• Processing the data collected.
• Developing a dashboard enabling the PMDTE to monitor the administrative buildings’ energy consumption.
• Training the PMDTE team to use this dashboard.
• Visiting seven buildings to understand the problems detected at the data-collection and data-processing stages.
• Preparing a synthesis report for the PMDTE’s managers recommending, in an order of priorities, all the energy-management actions that could be taken.

  Upon completion of this assignment, Econoler provided a set of energy policy orientation advice, which if implemented by the Gabonese government, would allow for reducing the water and energy expenses by about half against their current levels.