7th Energy Transition Council Ministerial Dialogue: chair’s summary
Published 25 May 2023
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Fifteen Energy Transition Council (ETC) partners – ministers, multilateral development banks and international organisations – in attendance at the seventh convening of the ETC on 24 May 2023 gathered to deliver on their commitments to accelerate the clean energy transition. Through continued collaboration, the Council and its partners indicated their continued commitment to identify, champion, coordinate and implement tailored solutions to decarbonise and increase ambition within the power sector, including through the important practical assistance provided by delivery partners of the ETC’s Rapid Response Facility. The Council also remains committed to making clean power the most affordable and reliable option to meet their energy needs efficiently by 2030 in line with the Power Breakthrough goal of the Breakthrough Agenda.
UK Minister of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Graham Stuart, announced a new co-chair of the Council - Secretary Raphael Lotilla, Philippines Department of Energy, while thanking the outgoing co-chair Damilola Ogunbiyi, the UN Secretary General’s Representative for Energy and CEO of Sustainable Energy for All.
Minister Stuart said:
I am delighted to welcome the Philippines as co-chair of the Energy Transition Council, particularly as the determination to move to clean energy continues to build worldwide. I know our partnership will prove a success as we rally countries’ efforts to speed up this transition whilst ensuring global energy security.
Secretary Lotilla brings a wealth of knowledge and leadership experience and I look forward to working with him and the Energy Transition Council members to remove barriers to clean growth and pursue a cleaner, more secure planet.
Secretary Lotilla noted:
The Philippines has worked closely with the ETC teams since its establishment in 2020, through Ministerials, ETC National Dialogues and Technical Working Groups which has resulted in 6 Rapid Response Facility projects to date, and with more in the pipeline. It is my pleasure to now take on a strategic role alongside the UK in this initiative whilst continuing the important practical work that the Council does with the Department of Energy. I look forward to working in collaboration with the Energy Transition Council to help support the global transition towards a more sustainable future.
Leaders from ETC partner countries, Egypt, Indonesia, Laos, Morocco, Nigeria, and the US, amongst others, articulated their efforts and ambitions to transform their power sectors, including through increasing and continuing collaboration with the Council. This was followed by open dialogue amongst partners as to where additional support is required by ETC partner countries to accelerate their energy transition ambitions and efforts.
ETC members – governments and institutions – responded to the call for support, outlining their offer of finance, expertise and assistance which would support the delivery of commitments laid out at COP26 and COP27 and contribute to a step-change in the coordination, availability and effectiveness of finance in the power sector. With COP28 in UAE fast-approaching, members also indicated their own ambitions to accelerate the pace of their power sector transitions in a just and inclusive manner, including across integrated energy planning, green grids, energy efficiency and coal phase down.
The ETC noted its strategic objectives ahead of the next ETC Ministerial in November 2023 at COP28, including the activation of the ETC partnership with the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet, and the intention to consider inviting some additional countries to join the 11 partner countries currently working with the Council and its members.