The European Union is bracing itself for an energy crisis this winter, as nations are more reliant than ever on natural gas to heat homes and power industries amid efforts to quit coal and increase the use of cleaner energy sources.
The unfolding EU ENERGY crisis, born out of rising...
The top three schools from the 2021 Senior High Schools Renewable Energy Challenge, organised by the Energy Commission, will go on an all-expense paid trip to the Bui Generating Station of the Bui Power Authority.
The schools are Gyaama Pensan Senior High Technical School in the Ashanti Region, which emerged...
For decades, we at the Rocky Mountain Institute (now RMI) have argued that the transition to clean energy will cost less and proceed faster than governments, firms, and many analysts expect. In recent years, this outlook has been fully vindicated: costs of renewables have consistently fallen faster than expected,...
With the rally towards more renewable sources of energy in full force, gas remains the best bet as a source of clean fuel for economies owing to its availability, sustainability and readiness of infrastructure to process it, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gas Company, Dr. Ben K.D. Asante,...
While Ghana already exports power to some West African countries, the Deputy Director, Nuclear and Alternative Energy under the Ministry of Energy (MoE), Dr. Bright Robert Sogbadji, has said if the country is able to exploit its energy potentials, it could derive more revenue than it currently earns from...
To keep the momentum for full scale industrialisation, it is necessary for the country to utilise a more reliable and affordable power generation as baseload to support value addition to the several natural alternative energy resources, Director, Executive Office, Bui Power Authority (BPA), Wisdom Ahiataku-Togobo, has said.
Mr. Ahiataku-Togobo said...
African leaders most often than not pay a blame game with other parties with regards to the mismanagement of the continent’s resources due to extensive corruption, political instabilities, regulatory uncertainties, and civil wars which have created financial poverty, energy poverty and plagued the standard of living across the continent....
Poised to ensure bitumen that is used for road construction in the country is of high quality and the supply is streamlined, the National Petroleum Authority has paid a working visit to the Societe Multinationale de Bitumes (SMB) refinery in Cote d’Ivoire.
Ghana imports its bitumen from SMB, which produces,...
The country needs to effectively exploit all available resources to ensure that the power sector is sustainable and efficient, panellists at the third and final day of the 2021 Ghana Economic Forum (GEF) have said.
They said all elements of the power generation mix, including thermal and renewable resources such...
Senior Presidential Advisor, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has said that for industry to be able to absorb the teeming unemployed youth in the country, it is necessary for firms to have access to reliable power at an affordable cost, as that will make them competitive.
Speaking on day-3 of the Ghana Economic...