Ghana`s dedication to turning in sustainable and equitable strength get admission to became reaffirmed on the Mission three hundred Ghana Energy Compact Review Workshop held in Accra on May 26, 2025.
The high-stage occasion added collectively key gamers withinside the strength area to assess and refine the draft National Energy Compact—an bold plan geared toward making sure regular get admission to to clean, reliable, and less costly strength for all Ghanaians.
Representing the Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Abdulai Jinapor, the deputy Energy Minister, Richard Gyan-Mensah emphasised the ministry`s strategic imaginative and prescient for reform.
“The authorities is devoted to making sure that each Ghanaian has equitable get admission to to sustainable, reliable, and less costly strength via way of means of growing the uptake of renewable strength,” the consultant said throughout the keynote deal with. “We are enforcing strength area reforms targeted on restructuring utilities and fostering aggressive procurement.”
The workshop additionally noticed lively participation from the Deputy Minister of Finance, Hon. Thomas Nyarko Ampem, along improvement partners, civil society businesses, and personal area stakeholders.
The occasion became convened as a part of Ghana`s broader Mission three hundred initiative, which seeks to attach three hundred groups to trendy strength offerings via way of means of 2030.
Stakeholders mentioned mechanisms for stepped forward collaboration, efficiency, and funding in strength production, distribution, and transmission.
Richard Gyan-Mensah additionally reiterated its openness to partnerships, pledging to paintings carefully with donor corporations, monetary institutions, and personal entities to enhance provider nice and force innovation throughout the area.
Special acknowledgments have been prolonged to Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), the World Bank, the African Development Bank (AfDB), and numerous strength corporations and civil society businesses for his or her non-stop support.
“Together, we will flip the promise of Mission three hundred right into a fact for tens of thousands and thousands of Ghanaians. The time to energy Ghana`s destiny is now,” Richard Gyan-Mensah added.
The workshop marked a first-rate step in Ghana`s adventure towards sustainable strength transformation, with stakeholders unified of their dedication to supply inclusive and resilient strength solutions.
About Mission three hundred
The Mission three hundred Ghana Energy Compact is Ghana`s strategic initiative beneathneath the wider Mission three hundred Africa program, which targets to attach three hundred million humans throughout Sub-Saharan Africa to energy via way of means of 2030.
Launched via way of means of the World Bank Group and the African Development Bank, this initiative seeks to deal with the big strength get admission to hole withinside the region, in which almost six hundred million humans presently stay with out energy.