The Energy Transition Office (ETO) held its one-day Energy Transition Plan: Data Stakeholder Session at the Ogun-Nassarawa Hall, Transcorp Hilton, Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday, the 19th day of July, 2023. The event featured stakeholders from different organizations relevant to the energy and data sector. The Energy Transition Office is the secretariat of Nigeria’s Energy Transition Plan and is resourced by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP). The ETO works to support commitments made by Nigeria to attain Net-Zero Emissions by 2060. The Energy Transition Plan (ETP) represents the nation’s strategy, which primarily targets energy poverty and climate change and proposes to significantly lower carbon emissions across 5 key sectors: Power, Cooking, Transport, Industry and Oil & Gas by 2060.Accurate, sufficient, timely, accessible, and up-to-date data has been identified as vital, imperative, and non-negotiable in the achievement of the ETP’s objectives. However, the Nigerian narrative, fuelled (amongst other factors) by a multiplicity of data sources, hoarding of data, reticence towards collaboration, varying priorities, lack of funds and an ever-changing landscape across data subjects have served to limit the availability of data in the sector. Thus, the one day workshop engineered a sit-down of some relevant stakeholders to ascertain the best practices towards data collation by stakeholders, to sift out information on credible data sources for different data needs within the sector, and to address unique challenges to data collection.
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