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• YAKUBU 11 years ago

  Africa's answer to it's energy deficit is solar, plain and simple. Collectively across the length and breadth of the continent, Africa should push forcefully to make solar energy, the foundation of it's energy sufficiency. In ...
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  Africa's answer to it's energy deficit is solar, plain and simple. Collectively across the length and breadth of the continent, Africa should push forcefully to make solar energy, the foundation of it's energy sufficiency. In this regard, massive investment should be targeted at solar energy generation together with incentives, technology acquisition, research and development, innovation, manufacturing quality excellent standards and maintenance, to fuel Africa's industrialization efforts. The source of this energy is freely available, grossly untapped and going waste.
  Prof. A. Hammond was one of the Lecturer's, if not the only one on UST campus who had a solar panel on his house in the 90's.
  Wind energy is also another feature that can be introduced into our energy mix and in this regard, research conducted by the likes of Dr.S.B. Arthur also of UST, could also be looked at.
  The issues of de-afforestation and illegal mining, threatens our environment and our water bodies to sustain hydro generation over the long term, unless, Ghana for example embarks on a very robust, massive and sustained exercise in concert with the Forestry Commission and the FORIG, to embark on a huge and sustained process of greening the country again, coupled with long term reclamation of degraded land and our dwindling forest cover, and watersheds.
  Institutes such as FORIG and IRNR, should be massively encouraged to conduct research into plant and tree species that are resistant to fire, takes shorter generation times, to help in the re-afforestation program and also, create commercial value for the export sector, upon value addition.
  In view of these constraints, it becomes increasingly important and critical that, investments currently, to address our gas infrastructure project in the immediate to short or medium term is tackled conscientiously, and in a determined and purposeful manner, shunning the misappropriation of funds for such critical investment projects, since, the growth and development of the country, and it's competitiveness in terms of investment both local and foreign, to support revenue generation, employment generation, etc, etc, would be strongly influenced by energy/power capacity, to fuel an ambitious drive to make Ghana, a modern progressive society.
  It's good that, communities are connected to the national electricity grid, but, the bottom line is that, such an exercise is not for bragging rights, but, to open up the country for development and decentralized growth across the length and breadth of the country.

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