Wangara Green Ventures, an impact investment fund, has announced a GHC 1.4 million investments into Good Roll factory to produce a climate-smart and sustainable toilet tissues in the country. The statement issued by Wangara Green Ventures, Good Roll factory and Innohub, a business accelerator, noted that the move was to contribute positively to the mitigation of …
Professor Aba Bentil Andam, a Physicist, has advised women in the Energy sector to refrain from giving excuses when given heavy tasks, if they wanted level-playing field. The level-playing field, includes; attaining leadership positions and playing a pivotal role in an organisation’s decision making processes. Such excuses include; maternal, personal, health and family issues that …
The Government of Ghana and Switzerland signed a bilateral agreement today, which brings the cooperative approaches of the Paris Agreement to life. The bilateral agreement sets the framework conditions for the cooperation. The first project foreseen will enable clean cooking and solar lighting and benefit up to five million Ghanaian households. The new partnership will …
Environmentally friendly refrigerators and air conditioners will be more widely accessible and affordable in Ghana through a new Green On-wage financing scheme. The ECOWAS Refrigerators and Air Conditioners Initiative is collaborating with CalBank Plc, Ecobank Ghana Limited, Letshego Ghana Savings and Loans Plc as partner banks and with Ederick Limited, Electroland Ghana Limited, Hisense, Nesstra …
An indigenous firm, SunPower Innovations, has said it is ready to partner the government to produce and deliver solar energy to businesses and communities in Ghana. According to the founder and the Chief Executive Officer, Ernest Amissah, it is time for the government and other development funding institutions to partner indigenous companies like SunPower Innovations …
The Institute for Energy Security (IES) wants government to help establish a green bank as well as explore the idea of offering renewable energy bonds – if it is truly committed to adding renewable energy to the country’s energy mix and helping industry get access to cheaper power. This, when done it says, could whip-up …
REDAVIA, a global market leader of cost-effective, reliable, and clean solar power for businesses, has created a new concessionary solar power program, the COVID-19 Resilience Lease, in order to stand by Ghanian and Kenyan businesses in this difficult time of economic uncertainty. Covid-19 has disrupted African businesses significantly. In this challenging time, REDAVIA enables sound …
Government has set a target of expanding electricity access rate to a minimum of 90 percent of the population by the end of 2020 as it seeks parliamentary approval for a loan of $100 million to connect 526 communities to the national grid. Currently, six out of the 16 regions have access rates above the …
The major airports in Ghana are soon expected to be fully solar powered, given that the process to roll-out this initiative is in its advanced stage. The initiative is expected to reduce the cost of power at the beneficiary airports by about 30 percent. This was made known by Mr. Joseph Kofi Adda, Minister for …
Some 32,000 households are expected to benefit from the construction of two solar plants in the Upper West Region by June and December respectively this year. This follows the sod cutting of the project by President Akufo-Addo that will see the construction of a 13-megawatt peak solar project in Kaleo and a 4-megawatt peak solar …