Monday, 2 January 2017

New year ‘solar letter’ to Akufo-Addo

Dear President-Elect AkufoAddo,

A Happy New Year to you and your family and I wish you the LORD's favors in Health, Wisdom Strength and Long Live.

Once more, let me grab this chance to compliment You and the NPP on your reverberating triumph of the December 2016 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections.

Incredibly, it is apparent that you and your group merited this triumph since you battled well for it.

However impressive the assignment ahead, I trust your and your group will clearly live to the desires.

Your Excellency, I should admit that my heart dependably jumps with extraordinary satisfaction at whatever time I read pages 40, 42, 85, 92 and 99 of the NPP statement on Solar Power Development for Ghana. This happiness originates from the trust this is the best approach to free Ghana of our delayed vitality emergency.

SIR, with all due regard, allow me to state that"As a country, we can't simply basically keep on doing a similar thing and expect distinctive outcomes". Expectedly, the experience in the course of the most recent three years in our vitality part will require a considerable measure of arrangements as you accept office come January 7, 2017, in any case, it is significant that the decisions we make now are reasonable.

Tragically, one asset that has ineffectively been saddled to help with our vitality segment is the sun powered vitality asset. As of now, sun oriented power contributes just 0.18% (22.5MW) of the aggregate era limit of our dear country.

Sir, this is exceptionally dismal in light of the fact that a nation like Germany has a sum of 38,000MW introduced limit of Solar Power, yet Germany gets just a single third of daylight hours we get in Ghana.

Obtusely, I don't mean to adjust the gigantic capability of Thermal Power Plants in Ghana'sgeneration,but in the course of recent years we have seen the consequences of its operations and execution crossing from conflicting and lacking gas supply from Nigeria, chain of obligation issues with fuel providers, unlimited devaluation of the Ghana Cedi, and routine support of force plants, and so on.

As of now, Thermal Power Plants has the lion's share (70.33%) in our vitality era blend, addresses however these and numerous others doubt its manageability (Cost and steadfastness) as a wellspring of energy to our matrix.

Your Excellency, I consciously present that Ghana needs more prominent vitality autonomy, nonetheless, this is not just a question of enhancing something we as of now have: it's a matter of turning around the exceptionally negative pattern.

Lately, the ordinary vitality worldview has quickly lost ground in contrast with the idea of supportable improvement, as it depends on the concentrated utilization of non-renewable fossil powers, bringing on ecological corruption and posturing worldwide vitality security dangers.

Accordingly, a change in our vitality worldview is vital. This new vitality worldview resounds with The 2015 Africa Progress Report named "Grabbing Africa's Energy and Climate Opportunities".

Sir, sunlight based is accessible in incredible plenitude for whatever length of time that life exists on earth and it is in fact plausible in Ghana.

The greater part of the innovation expected to deliver vitality from the sun is here now and is surely knew.

Sun powered boards are promptly accessible and quickly deployable.

Mr. President, as you may definitely know, there is a Ghanaian organization named Strategic Power Solutions (SPS) producing Solar PV Modules appropriate here in Kpone-Tema.

Universally, there remains a noteworthy overcapacity of generation for sun oriented boards. That implies they are generally accessible and aggressively estimated, particularly if your administration were to make some critical ventures by giving all fundamental calculated backings to IPPs with enormous sun oriented ranch ventures.

Once more, sun based power is reasonable and getting less expensive constantly. Sunlight based power are near equality with fossil energizes notwithstanding when externalities for fossils are overlooked. Contingent upon how we esteem the outer expenses connected with fossil powers, many are now less expensive. Sun oriented board costs have fallen around 70% to 80% in the course of the most recent three years and scale and innovation in the business are keeping on driving down expenses.

This put Electricity Company of Ghana(ECG) and other power offtakers in an outstanding spot to arrange exceptionally focused estimating for major sun based organizations.

Your Excellency, Solar vitality fueled half of Germany's noontime power needs on May 26, 2012 – delivering 22GW of vitality. That is what might as well be called around 25 coal control plants. On the off chance that sun oriented can supply a large portion of the vitality needs of the world's fourth biggest economy on a given day, it could positively assume a greater part in Ghana's dumsor and future vitality needs.

As a pleased Ghanaian who profoundly has faith in your One Village One Dam Irrigation Policy, I trust Solar can control this imaginative cultivating intercession. Additionally, the sending of a few sun powered minip-frameworks to interface off lattice groups and reception of an appropriated sun based vitality answer for all administration and open structures as caught in the NPP pronouncement can essentially decrease the weight on the national matrix.

Once more, Hybrid Megawatt sunlight based PV control plants can be built with existing Hydro and Thermal Plants which can bolster the network amid the day to decrease the operations of existing topping plants.

Some may think I am guileless to approach you to make such move when our nation's vitality needs have never been more prominent. They may state I am stupid since it will take numerous prior decades genuine vitality choices will get to be distinctly accessible and meanwhile we can't stand to manage without the vitality sources we as of now have.

Mr. President, I consciously deviate, and I think you do as well, as confirm in your vision and concentrate on vitality.

As a matter of fact, sun based is a part of the answer for the vitality emergency in Ghana, in any case, it no more drawn out ought to be dealt with as a specialty or "option" vitality arrangement. Sun based has earned its place at the adult table.

Taking everything into account, with your initiative, I accept with my entire existence that the Ghanaian who is honored with this daylight will start to make the most of its colossal vitality and "dumsor will be expelled absolutely under your administration.

I trust and implore, Mr. President that you will move our awesome country to its legitimate place.

God favor You

God favor Ghana

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