The ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE), in collaboration with the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers des Energies Renouvelables (ESMER) and the Beninese Agency for Rural Electrification and Energy Management (ABERME), is organising a regional examination for certification of off-grid Solar photovoltaic system technicians (on Level 1)....
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to work in partnership with Zeal Environmental Technologies to help efficiently operationalise EPA’s established laboratory in Takoradi to serve the petroleum industry.
“Zeal has the skill, knowledge and requisite machinery to deal with environmental protection issues - particularly in waste management as per oil...
Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank (AfDB), says the bank would invest 12 billion dollars in the power sector in Africa in four years with the goal of
leveraging on the aviation sector.
He said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
Adesina said the aviation...
The bustling city of Accra is the scene of a quiet but remarkable transformation. The air, once thick with exhaust fumes and the hum of diesel generators, is gradually being infused with a new sense of vitality. Like in other cities across the continent, solar panels glimmer on rooftops,...
Surging need driven by boom in electric cars, with 23 million passenger vehicles expected to be produced by 2030
The demand for raw materials used to manufacture rechargeable batteries will grow rapidly as the importance of oil as a source of energy recedes, as highlighted recently by the collapse of...
Senior Presidential Advisor, Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has underscored the imperative of making nuclear energy affordable to catalyse its widespread adoption as the continent continues its exploration of nuclear energy as a means to meet the burgeoning energy demands and secure a long-term energy future.
Nuclear energy offers a dependable and...
There are two recognized types of technologies for converting solar energy into electricity which are photovoltaic and concentrated solar power. Most energy supply facilities typically last several decades and technologies in these classes will dominate solar-powered generation between now and the future.
Solar technology has come a long way in...
Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, has told Parliament that government has cancelled 11 Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) at a cost of US$402million, given their precarious nature and the total cost of US$7.6billion that would have accrued in capacity charges over a 13-year period.
Mr. Agyarko told Parliament last week that:...
Demand for future borrowings to pay power producers for today’s COVID-19-induced freebies is likely to exacerbate the country’s already precarious debt profile and push Ghana into a sovereign financial crisis if adequate measures are not taken, Dr. Jerry Kombat Monfant, President of MBIC Group - a management and strategy...
Government is to resume ownership of the 250-megawatt (MW) Africa and Middle East Resource Investment (AMERI) thermal power plant from February 1, 2021 per the terms of the deal.
The Dubai based firm arrived in the country in October 2015 to assist in resolving the power crisis at the time....