Lets all solve help solve our energy challenge

These were thoughts I posted on my Facebook page, www.facebook.com/torgbiashigbey?fref=nf,  I believe one of the ways that policy makers can help resolve our energy challenges should be to make solar energy cheap to deploy & encourage all to go into solar systems. One way I think we can help is to take all duties and taxes off the inverters and batteries that go into solar systems.

A subsidy to individuals & organisations who invest into major solar projects beyond a particular capacity will be in the right directions & we should speed up system to allow such people to feed excess power back into the public grid.

Very energy efficient devices like LED lamps etc should also be given tax waivers. The challenge that 2015 energy challenges pose should be an impetus for all my fellow engineers to come up with creative solutions for our dear Ghana. I pray for knowledge, wisdom & understanding for the leaders within the energy sector to fix our problems. God bless our homeland Ghana.

My friend Jacob Vanderpuye also commented that “Those are excellent ideas on how to resolve our current residential energy needs, I’d like to add that an all the above solution including wind, hydro, biomass, nuclear and of course oil will ensure a diversified and cheap source of energy to fuel real industrial growth. Cheap energy is an effective selling point for FDI into Ghana considering the significant portion energy costs take in the price build up for most products. If we succeed in pivoting Ghana as a cheap energy destination to spur industrial growth, the dividends from that effort will be enough to subsidise residential energy needs”.

Interesting I found this RLG innovation in Gambia, why do we not have loads of that in Ghana. We need ideas to fix this energy challenge and this we all need to bring our minds together to fix this.

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