CPP calls for innovative solutions to power crisis

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Emmanuel Quaye, Slough 11 years ago

Dinosaurs don't have the word innovation. Our leader are Dinosaurs living in the past building DAMs. Asiedu Nketia is supplying blocks so why Solar and innovation approach?

Solar is the cheapest and a sustainable energy ...
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Dinosaurs don't have the word innovation. Our leader are Dinosaurs living in the past building DAMs. Asiedu Nketia is supplying blocks so why Solar and innovation approach?

Solar is the cheapest and a sustainable energy source. It looks as if our leaders are ANTI – technology. Nobody talks about a large scale solar power generation in its manifestos. Solar is the only solution. The power load shedding we are facing currently in Ghana will push us towards a total darkness in few years to come. We have already started experiencing nation-wide blackouts. Are we waiting until we go into a total black out before these dinosaur- anti- technology leaders start doing something about it?
The result of power outages lasting 4 to 10 hours a day is affecting commercial and industrial sectors. Because of the energy crisis in the country, manufacturing in Ghana will collapse one day. Now companies can no longer deliver on contracts because erratic power supply. Ghanaians are subjected to a mass hysteria in an environment where business, cooking, or reading can no longer be planned due to this erratic power “thing”.
Given that the energy crisis has challenged Ghana over the past several decades, one would have hoped to see energy solutions dominating party manifestos and robust response to energy shortfall using Solar Power Stations. No investor will come into a country where power supply is erratic.
Ghanaians should only vote for the party which has the vision of radical change in energy sector. A party that understands the need to invest in SOLAR technology.

Recently, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Algeria, Morocco and Egypt have all started building Solar arrays in an effort as they try to transition towards a renewable future, but not Ghana. After the late President Kwame Nkrumah built the Akosombo Dam, our successive governments have only paid lip services by adding some parts onto these facilities built by Nkrumah. But these additions or lip services are not significant to address the generation gap. They have also imposed huge duties on solar material coming into the country, how backward can we be as a nation? We need solar power station across the country not paying a lip service to this booming solar technology by installing few panels in some villages. Ghana needs solar projects that will make a significant addition to our power generation mix.
Our leaders have buried their heads in sand on this technology which is now cheap and stands at $0.40/Wp. Even war- torn countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone have embarked on this technology by building large scale solar stations. Solar is the only way forward, now due to increasing cell efficiency, solar products have become cheap to afford. But a country like Ghana is still singing same old song that solar power stations are expensive, if war-torn Liberia and Sierra Leone can afford it, Ghana can even do much more. We only borrow money to build white elephants across the country and buy presidential jets and a fleet of luxury vehicles for ministers. God help us.
Algeria has just installed 650 megawatts of solar energy and wants to install a stunning 22 000 MW by 2015. And Ghana cannot even afford a 2 MW solar power station, what a shame!
Import duties on solar equipment into the country should be abolished.
OLIVER TWIST (GHANA'S ROTWEILLER) 11 years ago

FORUMERS WILL RECALLED THE INCIDENT BETWEEN THE REAL HONOURABLE OLIVER TWIST(GHANA'S ROTWEILLER) OF NDC AND THE OTHER SELF STYLE OLIVER TWIST, AKA OSCAR ARMAH, A FORMER CONVICT AND AN NPP STOOGE - WELL I AM HERE TO TELL YOU T ...
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FORUMERS WILL RECALLED THE INCIDENT BETWEEN THE REAL HONOURABLE OLIVER TWIST(GHANA'S ROTWEILLER) OF NDC AND THE OTHER SELF STYLE OLIVER TWIST, AKA OSCAR ARMAH, A FORMER CONVICT AND AN NPP STOOGE - WELL I AM HERE TO TELL YOU THAT THE FAKE OLIVER TWIST WENT TO JAIL FOR A YEAR, HENCE THE REASON NO ONE HAS HEARD FROM HIM..
JATO 11 years ago

Sir,Gordon Guggisberg economy must come to an End Now,Modern Value added economy is way Out.Thanx Nana Addo.STOP HATE,ENVY,JEALOUS AND VOTE FOR THE PARTY WITH VISION TO DEVELOP GHANA.

Sir,Gordon Guggisberg economy must come to an End Now,Modern Value added economy is way Out.Thanx Nana Addo.STOP HATE,ENVY,JEALOUS AND VOTE FOR THE PARTY WITH VISION TO DEVELOP GHANA.
Conventional Youth. 11 years ago

The Most Intelligent Choice Towards Sustainable Ghana Is, STEMICs or or SYSTEMIC Slavery!!

STEMICs =

S- Science

T- Technology

E- Engineering

M- Mathematics

I- Innovation / Information.

C- Communicati ...
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The Most Intelligent Choice Towards Sustainable Ghana Is, STEMICs or or SYSTEMIC Slavery!!

STEMICs =

S- Science

T- Technology

E- Engineering

M- Mathematics

I- Innovation / Information.

C- Communication

S- Skills / Systems.
Activist 11 years ago

......NUCLEAR ENERGY LAST PLEASE.
Better assess the risks & the harzards of nuclear energy very well before promoting it into our soils!!!
Ghana is not yet fully ripe to operate this dangerous technology!!!

......NUCLEAR ENERGY LAST PLEASE.
Better assess the risks & the harzards of nuclear energy very well before promoting it into our soils!!!
Ghana is not yet fully ripe to operate this dangerous technology!!!
Don Blunt 11 years ago

Quite right, Activist.

But is it not shocking for so called energy experts of a political party to mention atomic energy?
Such people, totally ignorant but arrogant, will definitely force those technologies on us when g ...
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Quite right, Activist.

But is it not shocking for so called energy experts of a political party to mention atomic energy?
Such people, totally ignorant but arrogant, will definitely force those technologies on us when given the power to govern.

Unfortunately, such is common practice in Ghana, because the masses are uneducated and can never say "STOP!"
Activist 11 years ago

Well Don, I think this energy issue will soon become a political debate in Ghana instead of a development debate.
A very well composed Blueprint Press Release sheet is attached just below this news item & in-between th ...
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Well Don, I think this energy issue will soon become a political debate in Ghana instead of a development debate.
A very well composed Blueprint Press Release sheet is attached just below this news item & in-between this comments section, just scroll to click & read it for yourself.
It sounds very vibrant in words but only if the 'action' needed could sound extremely sky-rocking than these sweet words? Over to you, Over!!!
YAW AKOSA 11 years ago

SINCE THEY HAVE STOLEN THE MASSES MANDATE, SUPPORT THIEVERY WITH WAYOME, AND BLOCKED PRESIDENT MILLS COMMITEE To investigate the purchase of military aircrafts, a whole lot of calamity is entrenched on this presidency.

SINCE THEY HAVE STOLEN THE MASSES MANDATE, SUPPORT THIEVERY WITH WAYOME, AND BLOCKED PRESIDENT MILLS COMMITEE To investigate the purchase of military aircrafts, a whole lot of calamity is entrenched on this presidency.
Kwasi 11 years ago

In the midst of abundant sunshine the govenrnment should constitute a special committee on energy to help the Ministry of energy in solving the energy crises. We should harness solar energy. Prices of solar panels have come ...
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In the midst of abundant sunshine the govenrnment should constitute a special committee on energy to help the Ministry of energy in solving the energy crises. We should harness solar energy. Prices of solar panels have come down considerably.
Papa 2 11 years ago

Taking someone's ideas as your own will not wake up a dead party

Taking someone's ideas as your own will not wake up a dead party
KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 11 years ago

Yes dead party talking and yet the 'living' parties cannot deliver..What a shame!!!The CPP challenges the 'living 'parties'[NDC and NPP] to deliver now.

Yes dead party talking and yet the 'living' parties cannot deliver..What a shame!!!The CPP challenges the 'living 'parties'[NDC and NPP] to deliver now.
Big Joe - Belaruss, Russia, Ukraine 11 years ago

Samia the blueprint is available but the will to act, the will to put ideas to work, the will to capitalize innovations for innovations to make any realistic meaning for the benefits of the masses and future generation is lac ...
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Samia the blueprint is available but the will to act, the will to put ideas to work, the will to capitalize innovations for innovations to make any realistic meaning for the benefits of the masses and future generation is lacking becos we Ghana once market leader in manufacturing hub is now turned a BEGGAR...prone to Chinese ..unwilling to transform... and now Ghana now is downgrading from Maufacturing Hub and reversing to IMPORTED CONSUMER DEPENDENCE EHUB ..dwindling , slowly..
Concerned Patriot 11 years ago

I wish Ghana could tap all the wasted sunshine and turn it into a viable useful solar energy. We can do it but the only obstacle is our leaders who have failed us forever. No foresight at all in Ghana. We are not as poor as w ...
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I wish Ghana could tap all the wasted sunshine and turn it into a viable useful solar energy. We can do it but the only obstacle is our leaders who have failed us forever. No foresight at all in Ghana. We are not as poor as we think, but no good planning.
Kwesi Enim 11 years ago

The call from the CPP for innovative ideas to solve the energy crisis is in the right direction. But I am surprise, the CPP only criticized without giving any alternative option to serve as a base or starting point for the in ...
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The call from the CPP for innovative ideas to solve the energy crisis is in the right direction. But I am surprise, the CPP only criticized without giving any alternative option to serve as a base or starting point for the innovation they are requesting from the government. I do not want to believe that this is another saying of "talk is cheap". CPP, please lead the way. Your idea is good, but please, lead the way.
RKB USA 11 years ago

GHANA WE NEED 24 HOUR ELECTRICITY ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY AND GOOD WATER TO DRINK AND STOP SENDING OUR MONEY TO
OVERSEAS BANKS

GHANA WE NEED 24 HOUR ELECTRICITY ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY AND GOOD WATER TO DRINK AND STOP SENDING OUR MONEY TO
OVERSEAS BANKS

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