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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.
Since 2017, Ghana's score on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index has improved slightly from its low point that year, a score of 40 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). Ghana's score rose to 43 by 2020 and has remained there until the present, 2023.
Professor Iwayemi of University of Ibadan in Nigeria states that the “fundamental energy question facing Africa [is]…providing and maintaining widespread access of the population to reliable and affordable supplies of environmentally cleaner energy to meet the requirements of rapid economic growth and improved living standards.” [6] In ...
In 2019 Eskom controversially applied to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) to increase tariffs by an additional 45% over the proceeding three years [190] arguing that it needs the increase in revenue to avoid a debt induced death spiral. [191] Eskom was controversially granted a 13.8% increase by NERSA in March 2019. [192]
By the time Ghana became independent in 1957 - leading the Gold Coast Trades Union Congress to become the Trades Union Congress of Ghana - there were splinter labor groups in all regions of the country. Many were much more militant than the TUC and violent demonstrations and strikes were no rarity in Ghana.
The government set aside 80million Ghana cedis to pay frontline health workers' incentive package as part of Ghana's COVID-19 pandemic preparedness. [57] The Minister for Employment and Labor Relations stated an amount of GH¢320 million was spent on health workers as part of the Government's COVID-19 relief package. [ 58 ]
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According to the United Nations 2015 MDG report, the target of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water has been attained in Ghana. [14] The share of non-functional supply systems in Ghana is estimated at almost one third, with many others operating substantially below designed capacity.