The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Western Region, has initiated an exercise to educate students of selected educational institutions in the region about the company’s operations. The educational campaign which forms part of the Electricity Company of Ghana’s stakeholder engagement and communications strategy, which targets students of Senior High Schools, Nursing/Midwifery Training Colleges … Read more
Sydney’s Opera House and the Harbour Bridge plunged into darkness to mark Earth Hour on Saturday night, but it seems the remainder of the city didn’t get the memo. The event originated in Sydney in 2007 with 2.2 million people and 2,100 businesses switching off their lights for 60 minutes in a bid to highlight climate … Read more
Sydney’s Opera House and Harbour Bridge plunged into darkness Saturday to mark Earth Hour, as global landmarks began dimming their lights to draw attention to climate change. Millions of people from some 170 countries and territories are expected to take part in the annual bid to highlight global warming caused by the burning of coal, … Read more
In an attempt to fight the menace of plastic waste and also bridge the housing deficit gap in Ghana, a young man in his thirties has come out with an innovation to build houses using plastic bottles. The new innovation is 33-percent cheaper than the traditional form of building a house and 20 times stronger … Read more
Educational institutions consume lots of electricity to perform both academic and non-academic activities. Currently, some tertiary institutions pay about 2 million Ghana Cedis monthly. Glaringly, the cost of utility bills is a major concern in an educational institution in Ghana, spanning from the Senior High Schools (SHS), Training Colleges, Polytechnics, and Universities. Energy efficiency and … Read more
Power outages, popularly known as dumsor, are imminent in the coming days as the power sector is on the verge of losing 600 megawatts (MW) of generation by February 3, 2017 due to a complex web of financial obligations and other challenges confronting the national generator, the Volta River Authority (VRA). The power supply deficit … Read more
Energy experts in Ghana’s north have asserted that it is the responsibility of women to remain awake – after everyone else has said goodnight – to ensure that all gadgets not needed overnight are unplugged to save power. The authorities cast the spotlight of domestic upkeep of power on women on the basis that wives … Read more
Do you think you’re paying more for electricity than you consume? Are you wondering why your electricity consumption is high yet you use few and energy-efficient electrical gadgets? Customers are sometimes at a loss as to what constitute the high energy consumption on the bills they receive and what appliances might be consuming all the … Read more
The Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency, is set to commence the construction of a state-of-the-art e-waste recycling facility at Agbogbloshie in the Greater Accra Region. Estimated at US$30million for the first phase, the facility is expected to recycle all waste electrical and electronic equipment to final … Read more
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has outlined an elaborate plan aimed at dealing decisively with the energy crises that has bedevilled the country by bringing to an end the persistent, irregular and unpredictable electric power outages popularly known as ‘dumsor’. The party aims at realising this objective through liquidity injection, restructuring of debts, and securing … Read more
The presidential nominee of the All People’s Congress (APC), Mr Hassan Ayariga, has promised to end the erratic energy situation (dumsor) that has bedevilled the country for years, should he win the December 7 presidential election. Speaking at the launch of his party’s 2016 manifesto in Accra on Thursday, 6 October, Mr Ayariga said the … Read more
The saved about 400 gigawatts of electricity power within 3 years of the Refrigerator Energy Efficiency Program. This was announced by the Mr Kofi Agyarko, the Head of Energy Efficiency Promotion and Climate Change of the Energy Commission. Addressing media practitioners at a forum this week, Mr. Agyarko said Ghana needed to progressively adopt energy … Read more
The President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama has acknowledged that prospecting at the public sector are the narrowest and that graduates must explore the private and the informal sectors for jobs. Speaking at the maiden congregation of the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Sunyani, President Mahama advised graduates to keep their eyes … Read more