The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a set of three studies on efficient lighting, with a special emphasis in the ECOWAS region. These studies are in line with the vision of the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy… Read More »New Studies Released on Lighting

Direct woodfuels have a total stock of about 832 million tonnes. Timber logging utilise 2.0 – 2.7 million m3 per annum, generating 1.0-1.4 million m3 of logging residues on an annual basis. These residues include slabs, edgings, off cuttings, sawdust,… Read More »Biomass in Ghana

Ghana has about 2,000 MW of raw potential for wind energy as shown in the Wind Energy Resource Map of Ghana in Figure 2.11. Satellite data provided by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of USA under the UNEP SWERA Project… Read More »Wind Energy in Ghana