Welcome to Energy Commision
The Energy Commission is fully committed to serving effectively and efficiently the national interest in the discharge of its statutory mandates and functions.
The Commission is equally committed to accepting and dealing with the challenges that Ghana must meet head on in its quest for a truly functioning competitive energy industry that creates affordable energy supplies, improves energy reliability, efficiency, and security, and above all, protects and enhances public safety, economic well-being, and environment quality.
The Energy Commission welcomes investors, Ghanaian, African and foreign, in energy efficiency projects and programmes in a competitive market that would be efficient and environmentally sound. As a one-stop regulatory body, the Energy Commission encourages building energy efficiency standards and insists on appliance energy efficiency requirements.
Energy Sector Overview
The total indigenous primary energy produced in Ghana in 2000 was 6.2 million tonnes of oil equivalent5, about eleven and half times the yearly average energy generated at Akosombo and Kpong hydroelectric plants (see table 1.1). This rose to 6.6. Million tonnes of oil equivalent by 2004 with average growth rate of 2.4 percent per annum over the period 2000 – 2004.The indigenous primary energy comprised 90-95 percent wood fuels (generally called biomass), 5-10 percent hydro energy and less than one percent solar energy. The hydro was supplied from Akosombo and Kpong dams in the form of electricity.
Solar energy is used for the sun-drying of crops: cocoa, cereals, vegetables consisting of groundnuts and pepper and other exportable commodities requiring drying. Solar energy for production of electricity is relatively negligible; about 140 tonnes of oil equivalent.
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