The Energy Efficiency Working Party (EEWP)

The Energy Efficiency Working Party (EEWP) is a subgroup of the Standing Group on Long-Term Co-operation (SLT).

The Energy Efficiency Working Party (EEWP) encourages co-operation between IEA Member countries to improve their energy efficiency. To achieve this, the EEWP:

• collates and reviews planned and existing energy efficiency and conservation programmes in Member countries in order to address the question of the feasibility or desirability of setting dynamic targets of objectives by the SLT for the reduction in energy consumption growth rates;
  
  
• investigates what is meant by energy conservation and considers the impact which various measures might have on overall economic activities;
  
  
• develops criteria to evaluate the relative effort of Member countries needed to realize the objectives established, keeping in mind that the efforts should be distributed among members on an equitable basis;
  
  
• proposes ways and means to the SLT for development of a periodic systematic review programme to evaluate and compare individual countries’ conservation measures and progress.