Goal 7 of the Sustainable Development Goals seeks to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services and increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030. This target provides an opportunity as well as a challenge to African...

Ghana has been plagued with Power Crisis for the past three years. In the mix of discussions on the energy challenges that Ghana has been confronted with over the years is the level of efficiency of its sole electricity distribution organisation; the Electricity Company of Ghana Limited (ECG)....

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...

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,...

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...