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3. Theses(Master)
ASSESSMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY POTENTIAL IN GHANA; ACHIEVING 10% OF ENERGY MIX TARGET BY 2030
- Author(s)
- DORIS DUODU
- Advisor
- Kim Suduk
- Department
- 국제대학원 융합에너지학과
- Publisher
- Graduate School of International Studies Ajou University
- Publication Year
- 2019-02
- Language
- eng
- Alternative Abstract
- Setting long term target by policy makers are a way of showing commitment and by doing so, they are challenged to initiate activities or programs to meet the target set. Policy makers often comes up with policies as a means of achieving targets. Many countries have set targets for achieving a certain percentage of renewable energy in their national energy mix. The policies are traced to be certain of their performance and if not satisfied, they are either revised or new once are introduced to meet their goal (REN21, Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, 2016). Ghana is a West African country blessed with abundant of renewable energy resources, especially solar, wind, biomass, hydro and tidal waves. In order to develop these resources and promote its use, the government of Ghana since the late 1980s have put in policies and measures to accomplish this agenda and to diversify energy generation mix in the country. As times goes by, more policies were being set up to improve on the previous ones to increase the use of renewable energy and create an enabling environment to attract investors. The main renewable policy goal in the country is to integrate 10% of renewable energy in the energy generation mix by 2030 from the current level of 1%. However, it is expected that with all these measures in place, the output of RE (installed capacity) will increase. Unfortunately the picture on the ground is not so. Therefore the objective of this study is to assess the renewable energy policy that exist in Ghana and to find out if the policy can help achieve the set target of RE policy goal of (10%) in the energy mix. Therefore, the renewable energy policy strategies of five countries that are advanced in RE deployment namely; USA, Germany, Korea, China and Egypt were reviewed alongside Ghana’s renewable energy policy and potentials and comparative analysis carried out to draw conclusion. At the end of the studies it was revealed that though Ghana’s renewable energy is still young but has all the necessary basic RE policy in place to achieve its target if they are effectively implemented and more investment made to support the policy. Following the outcome of the research, recommendations were made that would help develop and facilitate the achievement of the policy goal; these includes (I)Strengthening of public private partnership, (II) government should introduce effective and sustainable financial support programs to subsidize and reduce initial cost of RE system, (III) government should invest heavily in the renewable energy sector, and (IV) net metering scheme should be promoted especially in rural and off-grid areas to encourage the use of renewable energy
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