… to solve excess capacity conundrum
Government has charged the Volta River Authority (VRA) to use its experience in electricity export to find markets for the country’s excess power capacity.
The country’s total installed capacity is 5,083MW with a peak demand of 2,7000MW. Of the total installed capacity, 2,300MW has been...
The prolonged inter-utility legacy debt component of US$203million for the power sector debt within the energy sector accrued in a period ending December 2016 is finally settled, Elikplim Kwabla Apetorgbor - Sunon Asogli’s Manager of Energy Trading, Research and Regulatory Affairs - has confirmed.
The debt involved both state-owned energy...
Edmond Kombat, Co-founder and Director of Administration & Research at the Institute for Energy Security (IES) has been selected to participate in the ‘Energy Transition – Germany’s Policy on Hydrogen’.
Mr. Edmond Kombat will represent the Institute for Energy Security (IES) as one of the selected organization among the three...
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has again raised concern that government reviews exploration contracts of companies that have failed to invest in their oil blocks.
About 12 oil agreements awarded prior to 2016 are said to be idle. Delay in exploring and developing these blocks, ACEP contends, is...
The Discussions, which are being organised by CUTS Ghana - research, advocacy and consumer protection organisation in collaboration with Consumer International - aim to spread awareness on sustainable consumption and promote the habit of sharing resources within communities to get people to buy less, or at least to buy...
…as it inaugurates community-based committees
The Ghana Integrated Aluminum Development Corporation (GIADEC) is soon expected to conclude the process for selecting new strategic partners for bauxite mining in Kyebi, Awaso and Nyinahin, the Chief Executive of GIADEC, Michael Ansah, has said.
This comes as the company has reached the final...
After years of just bubbling under, the ESG megatrend has finally opened the afterburners. At a time when the reminders of past flameouts by the fossil fuel sector have been amplified by the pandemic, the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) momentum has reached fever-pitch with assets invested in...
Around the world, there is a sweeping movement toward a global green energy transition. While world leaders have been urged by experts for years to start lowering greenhouse gas emissions and start battling climate change with a sense of urgency, the COVID-19 pandemic has, in its severe and continued...
The discovery of oil in the last decade has presented an immutable opportunity in boosting Ghana’s economic growth. However, it has led to encountering some puzzling consequences into its resource exploitation.
For instance, in the upstream oil and gas value chain, every local and foreign entity carrying out operations has...
Axcon Energy Limited has kicked off construction of Appolonia City’s first solar power plant, which will bring 5MW of renewable energy to homeowners and businesses within Greater Accra’s new city.
The solar plant, located in Appolonia Industrial Park, provides additional capacity to Appolonia City’s dedicated power substation.
“The new solar plant...