Among the challenges facing Africa’s energy sector is the dearth of sustainable financing. The reasons for this challenge include are inadequate capacity of local funding sources to finance energy projects, inefficient offtakers, high interest rates among others. This implies that although Sub...

Part I. Political Economy of Energy Regulation in Africa -- Chapter 1. The dynamics of energy regulation in Africa (Ishmael Ackah) -- Chapter 2. Africa’s Transition to Cleaner Energy: Regulatory imperatives and Governance Dynamics (Sidique Gawusu) -- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of...

Open and competitive bidding process (toss a coin) promotes transparency, efficiency and cost reduction as compared to direct negotiations (shake a hand). This paper provides an overview of renewable energy interventions in Angola, Algeria, Cote Dvoire, Ghana and Nigeria. Further, best practices...

Oil resources are neither a curse nor a blessing. The sound management of these resources can make them beneficial or otherwise. In order to translate Ghana's oil resources into inclusive development amid high expectations, several laws and regulations have been passed and new institutions...

Oil resources are neither a curse nor a blessing. The sound management of these resources can make them beneficial or otherwise. In order to translate Ghana's oil resources into inclusive development amid high expectations, several laws and regulations have been passed and new institutions...

This paper reviews the operations of the oil downstream sector in Ghana by appraising the industry report for 2016. It identifies some challenges of the sector and proffer solutions to ameliorate them. Among the recommendations include the payment of BDC debt by government and OMCs to create...

The study looks at the impact of price of petroleum prices on inflation in the Ghanaian economy in the pre and post deregulation era and associated direction of causality as well as the extent of pass through of high international petroleum products price to the domestic retail market. An ARDL...

Natural gas is considered one of the ultimate fuel for power generation and domestic consumption in the 21st Century due to its attractive environmental qualities. Due to this, the government of Ghana introduced a subsidized cylinder policy in the early 1990s to encourage the consumption of...

With less than 50% of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa having access to modern forms of energy and the desire to minimize the impact of energy consumption on the environment, there is a need to invest in an energy source that is affordable, available and environmentally clean. Natural gas is...

The study models the consumption of the two most consumed petroleum products in Ghana namely; gasoline and gasoil. Descriptive analyses and the Structural Time Series Model (STSM), is used as the main estimation method because of its ability to account for structural dynamics in the economy,...