Aware of the links between sustainable economic development, widespread electrification and a reliable electricity supply, the government set up the National Electrification Scheme (NES) in 1989. This project was intended to improve the country’s electricity access rate (15–20% at the time) through the NES Master Plan, ultimately reaching an electricity access rate of 100% by 2020.13Overall, the […]

Despite being derailed at multiple points on a long, uneven journey, recent developments around Ghana’s nuclear plans provide hope and lessons for the rest of Africa. Ghana has experienced recurring periods of unstable electricity supply in 1983, 1997-1998; 2003; 2006-2007 and again from 2011-2017. Domestic natural gas and oil reserves provide some relief, but projections indicate that these will […]