GIS-based Support for Implementing Policies and Plans to Increase Access to Energy Services
GIS-based Support for Implementing Policies and Plans to Increase Access to Energy Services
- Status
- Completed
- Region:
- West Africa
- Country / Partner Organisation:
- Ghana
- Date:
- January 2009 - September 2011
Summary
Ghana’s energy policy aims at ensuring reliable and cost-effective supply of high quality energy services for households, businesses, industries and the transport sector nationwide. The need to secure future electricity and modern fuel supplies has been touted as the pivot of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, in spite of the popular notion underpinning energy access-poverty reduction nexus, policies and plans intended to create an enabling environment for an improved energy access are seldom evaluated in most developing countries.
In the reporting period, the project was completed with significant activities undertaken on all four project objectives by the project implementing agency ‘The Energy Center’ (TEC) of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana since 2009:
1. Review of Energy Trends, Policies and Plans in Ghana
2. Assessment of Energy Needs and Comparison with ECOWAS targets and MDGs
3. Development of GIS e-maps for Energy Services
4. Development of Methods and Tools for Capacity Building
a) Electrification costs modelling
b) GIS-based Energy Access Review (GEAR) Toolkit
The project has resulted in a peer reviewed publication:
Francis Kemausuor, George Yaw Obeng, Abeeku Brew-Hammond, Alfred Duker, A review of trends, policies and plans for increasing energy access in Ghana, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 15, Issue 9, December 2011, Pages 5143-5154, ISSN 1364-0321, 10.1016/j.rser.2011.07.041. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032111002826)
