Puma Energy Ghana, a leading energy company, reiterated its commitment to enabling access to energy - and specifically clean cooking solutions - when U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan visited its affiliate LPG (liquified petroleum gas) bottling facility.
The visit, attended by Mr. Michael S. Regan, Second...
Renewable energy offers a clean and sustainable future for Ghana and Africa in a post COVID-19 world, Raymond Nuworkpor, Research and Policy Analyst at the Institute for Energy Security (IES), has said.
“It is the resilience of renewables to the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with the falling cost of power generation...
...but says special funding mechanism required
While electricity tariffs from conventional generation sources will continue to rise, the cost of renewable energy, particularly solar, is declining and becoming an increasingly competitive alternative for businesses, an expert has observed.
According Kwabena Otu-Danquah, Technical Expert at GFA Consulting Group, tariffs from conventional sources...
Want end of industry’s subsidy to households
Experts in the energy sector have called on government to effect changes in the pricing of tariffs in the country, to eliminate the policy which makes industries subsidise the amount households pay for their consumption of power - saying the practice has...
Prices of petrol and diesel shot up 347 percent and 338 percent respectively between 2010 and 2019, due to the cedi’s persistent depreciation, taxes and levies, according to a new study by the Institute for Energy Security (IES).
In 2010 the average pump price of petrol stood at GH¢1.16 per...
It will do the economy, particularly the energy industry, a whole lot of good if the government start to take steps toward developing a comprehensive national policy and roadmap on hydrogen energy.
This, according to energy think-tank Institute of Energy Security (IES), could stimulate capital spending on new infrastructure, give...
Various countries are turning towards geothermal energy
Kenya hopes to double capacity over the next five years
South-east Asian governments offer incentives to encourage investment
High drilling costs pose barrier to further development
While solar and wind are the dominant segments in the transition to renewables, a number of emerging...
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,...
As part of efforts aimed at reliable power supply to customers, the Tema Region of the Electricity Company of Ghana Limited (ECG), has invested GH¢3.2 million on seven major system improvement works from July to December 2021.
Each of the projects, which costs over GH¢200,000, includes system injections and replacement...
The Institute of Energy Security (IES) is projecting a rise in price of Gasoline (Petrol) ranging from 5% to 9% over current price with some form of stability in the prices of Gasoil (Diesel) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) beginning June 2022.
The 5.49 and 4.13 percentage drops in the...