Ghana lured investors to its power industry to end chronic electricity shortages with deals it can no longer afford. The deals’ terms require the government to pay for electricity generated even if there’s no […]
Independent Power Producers (IPPs) which supply half of the 2,700 MW produced in Ghana, say they will be forced to shut down their plants if the government does not pay the $ 1.4 billion owed […]
Voltic Ghana says it has naturally been able to reduce electricity cost by about 58 per cent following a decision to switch to Philips LED lights. On the factory floor of Voltic Ghana, the company […]
Ghana’s power transmission utility is owed 976 million cedis ($173 million) by other state-owned companies and is struggling to meet its debt-repayment commitments, Bloomberg reports. The two the main power distribution utilities, Electricity Co. of […]
The Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Ltd. has announced that it will cut off power in parts of the country on Friday. The outage will be a result of a scheduled maintenance project to improve […]
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy, ACEP has asked the government to publish a load shedding time table for the country. According to ACEP, based on the facts available, the current power situation is symptomatic […]
In 2015, I joined a major demonstration in Kumasi against the power cut phenomenon that had gripped the country and which found its way into the local parlance as ‘dumsor’. Of course, it had its […]
The Power Distribution Services Ghana Limited, which is led by Meralco, a Filipino Electricity Company, has officially taken over the operations and management of the Electricity Company of Ghana, after being presented with documents covering […]
Scientists have invented a machine that converts Wi-Fi signals into electricity to power devices without the need for a battery. The end result is a small two-dimensional device that is powered solely by Wi-Fi waves […]
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