Huawei's new ICT empowers smart grids
Electric power companies around the world are looking to improve quality and efficiency by deploying data centers and reconstructing management platforms
July 13 marked the Seventh Huawei Global Power Summit themed "Bits Drive Watts, Building a Fully Connected Smart Grid". Held online, the summit invited...
The main operator of the electricity grid, Ghana Grid Company, (GRIDCo) has attributed recent intermittent power outages to challenges with some of its key transmission lines in the Western and Eastern parts of the country.
“Brief outages have hit certain parts of the country in recent days; particularly last week...
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), has published its Semi-annual Report on the management and use of petroleum revenues for the first half of 2020.
The report is being released two months later than the statutory reporting date of 15th September. This is largely due to the Covid-19 pandemic,...
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) wants to become a major petroleum upstream player, but that dream is under threat because of its financial exposure to pay-or-take clauses in gas contracts, the Institute of Energy Security (IES) has said.
The state-owned company holds about 15 percent carried and participating stake...
Gov’t working to revive company’s fortunes
Debt reaches more than US$340m
The reliability on imports of crude oil and its finished products for processing at the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is still deepening the company’s financial woes, Deputy Minister designate for Energy, Andrew Egyapa Mercer, has admitted.
He said the...
Karpowership Ghana has been adjudged the “best company in mentorship programmes and initiatives” at the Women in Mining and Energy Awards.
The award recognized the power producing company for the numerous initiatives it has rolled out to mentor young people into great adults, and programmes aimed at helping resolve challenges...
…supports 117 Project Affected Persons with fishponds
The Bui Power Authority (BPA) has supplied 39 fishing ponds to 117 people whose livelihoods were earlier affected due to construction of the Bui Hydroelectric Project. The 117 people were in 39 groups and opted for a Fish Raising module under the Authority’s...
The country can significantly maximise benefits under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) by promoting activities of agricultural aggregators - Professor Felix Asante, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Development-University of Ghana, has advocated.
The country’s agriculture is predominantly small-scale in nature, with more than 60 percent of local...
High-income countries are exploring ways to fund Indonesia’s energy transition
Energy transition partnerships have been used in South Africa to help with decarbonisation efforts
Despite recent progress, the scale and cost of switching to renewables remains a challenge
Emerging markets have begun leveraging the environment to fund net-zero...
…as it inaugurates solar power plant
The ARCCU Co-operative Credit Union Limited (ARCCU) has inaugurated a solar power plant to minimize energy consumption and reduce the cost of electricity.
EWIA ‘solar investments for Africa’ has awarded ARCCU with Solar Installation Certificate of Completion. And per the certification, EWIA will monitor and...