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Power Distribution Services Ghana (PDS Ghana Limited), [1] was an electricity distribution company in Ghana. The company's operation covered about thirty percent of the total land mass of the country. [2] Formerly, and as a public company, its operations were under the Ministry of Energy of Ghana. [3]
It is the official goal of Ghana energy industry to have 10% of Ghana's energy mix come from renewable sources (not counting large-scale hydropower) by 2015 or at the very latest by 2020. [23] Ghana has Class 4-6 wind resources at locations of the high wind areas – such as Nkwanta, the Accra Plains, Kwahu and Gambaga mountains.
The company is the sole supplier of electricity to the five Northern Regions of Ghana: Northern Region, Upper East Region, Savanna Region, North East Region and Upper West Region, Bono, Bono East, Ahafo Regions and part of the Ashanti and Volta Regions. The Electricity Company of Ghana supplies the other regions. [3] [4]
The minister for energy and petroleum is the head of the ministry and is directly accountable to the President of Ghana. The position is politically appointed and approved by parliament of Ghana. The current minister is John Abdulai Jinapor who succeeds Herbert Krapa under the Nana Akufo-Addo administration government.
The Energy Commission of Ghana was founded by the enactment of an Act of the Parliament of Ghana, Energy Commission Act, 1997(Act 541).The primary supervisory body for the commission is the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum (Ghana). [1] [5] Its precursor was the National Energy Board, started in 1989. [6]
The bill in Ghana still needs to be signed off by the country’s president before it becomes law. The United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk called parliament’s passing of the bill ...
Ghana Grid Company is an electricity transmission company in Ghana.GRIDCo was incorporated on December 15, 2006 as a private limited liability company and started operations in 2008 following the transfer of the core staff and power transmission assets from Volta River Authority with a mandate to ensure the provision of transparent, non-discriminatory and open access to the transmission grid ...
ACCRA (Reuters) -Ghana's anti-LGBTQ bill could lead to a loss of $3.8 billion in World Bank financing over the next five to six years if it becomes law, derailing a $3 billion IMF loan package ...