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Book on Ghana's
energy crisis launched in Kumasi
Kumasi, Nov. 6, Ghanadot/GNA- An
eighty-five-page book on Ghana's recent energy crisis has
been launched in Kumasi.
The book, authored by eight energy experts from the
Engineering Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology (KNUST), seek to identify the causes
and effects of the year-long energy crisis, which nearly
brought the nation's economic activities to a halt.
Professor Fred Ohene Akuffo, a Co-author of the book giving
the highlights of the publication at the launch, attributed
the crisis to the shortage of an alternative energy
generation capacities in the country.
He said there was a considerable potential for energy
savings particularly in the residential areas, where simple
measures such as the use of energy efficient bulbs could
result in significant reduction in the consumption of
electric power.
Professor Akuffo, recounted other issues in the book as the
fact that renewable energy in general and solar energy in
particular could make important contribution to electricity
supply, especially in rural areas, which currently do not
have access to electricity.
He said the book also discusses the issue of inadequate
financing for the implementation of planned activities as
one of the major constraints in the power sector development
in the country and affirmed that until that weakness was
addressed the country might not be able to realize the dream
of making the power crisis a thing of the past.
In an address read on his behalf, Professor Kwesi Adarkwa,
Vice Chancellor of the KNUST, stressed the need to harness
the expertise at the university to establish energy centres
to come out with ideas that could help tackle energy
problems in the country.
Professor Ebenezer Jackson, a senior lecturer at the College
of Engineering, who chaired the function, said KNUST had
been at the forefront of energy technology and policy
research in Ghana for several decades and commended the
authors and editors of the book for their efforts and urged
them to intensify their efforts in tackling national energy
problems.
GNA
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