The Energy Minister says there are plans to explore how best government can benefit from renewable energy and go-ahead to export to neighbouring countries.
Energy experts have often called on relevant government agencies to consider making power production attractive for export and they believe Ghana must innovate and make its renewable energy attractive for neighbouring countries.
Although this form of energy is expensive, Representative from the Energy Ministry, Wisdom Ahiataku-Togoboare revealed to Citi Business News that his outfit is looking at available options and opportunities.
Speaking at the commissioning of a 1000KWp off-road solar power system for Special Ice factory at Oyarifa in Accra, he explained that the said plans underway is supposed to help reduce energy demand and he feels proud as the CEO of Sun Power since the installation is a very good one.
He added that, dictionary innovations have since installed more than 7MW of solar power PV capacity while pertinent and major installations have since taken place at banks, hotels, research institutions, shopping malls, amongst others.
Speaking at the same event was the Managing Director of Sun power Innovations, Ernest Amissah, who outlined the benefits of the solar power system. he assured that, one cannot generate crude oil and sell at 10 cents but it is being worked on. “For now, the export of renewable energy is quite expensive, even with the thermal power we have, Togo would like to buy power for less than 10 cents. For instance, they are at the moment buying power form Cote D’ivoire using our network and selling it to Togo and Benin, we could fill in that gap but at what price?” he added.
