untries for electricity generation rose by 11.36 per cent to $6.47m last year from $5.81m in 2019, according to official data obtained by our correspondent
Too little power in Nigeria, too much in Ghana
While much of Nigeria's new gas-fired capacity is unused because of gas supply problems, Ghana has not been able to absorb all of its new installed power capacity. Neil Ford reports
Africa’s first fully digital high voltage substation commissioned by GE
The first-ever fully digital high voltage substation on the African continent in Thiès, just outside Dakar in Senegal, has recently been commissioned.
Xi tells UN China will stop funding coal projects overseas
United Nations (United States) (AFP) China will stop funding coal projects overseas, President Xi Jinping said Tuesday, ending a major source of support for a dirty energy contributing to climate change. Addressing the UN General Assembly, Xi made the promise as he vowed to accelerate efforts to help the world...
Analysing different rural electrification approaches in Ghana
Dr Basil Amuzu-Sefordzi, a postgrad research fellow at UWA AfREC, the University of Western Australia writes about how renewable energy projects in rural Ghana have some built-in limitations and how to circumvent them.
Petroleum Commission rolls out training for 150 graduates – under the AOGC programme at TTU
The AOGC programme which is spearheaded by the Petroleum Commission, aims to develop the requisite technical skills for the country’s upstream oil & gas and other extractive industries, and also serves as a major boost for the country’s draft localization policy.
Aker energy partner Lukoil raises issue with GNPC’s move to increase oil bloc shares
Russian energy company, Lukoil, has expressed some misgivings about the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation’s (GNPC) planned acquisition of stakes in Aker Energy and AGM Petroleum Ghana.