I was woken from my Facebook sabbatical over the weekend when Verdens Gang (VG), a Norwegian newspaper based in Oslo, broke a story on the murky power contract between the…
Theo Acheampong spoke to Ghanaian media on the sidelines of the Africa Oil Governance Summit on developments in the country’s power sector. In two separate interviews given to Joy News,…
Want to ensure constant flow of power to support economic growth and development? Develop and maintain a legal and regulatory framework for the power sector encourages investor confidence from licensing…
NB: Charts culled from BBC article [see link below]. Governments across the world are looking to nuclear power to meet growing energy demand (and energy security) while reducing the CO2…
I reproduce below my latest policy paper published on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Title: Petroleum Product Pricing, Deregulation and Subsidies in Ghana: Perspectives on Energy Security Authors: Theophilus…
Just read Craig Murray’s article titled “IMF and USA set to ruin Ghana” and though he ― as a former Deputy British High Commissioner to Ghana and an insider― makes some interesting…
For those complaining about recent hikes in petroleum prices, it is important to note that the main driver of these increments is the exchange rate as can be seen in…
My three-part series (papers 2 and 3 co-authored with Kwamena Essilfie Adjaye) on the ongoing power crisis (aka ‘dumsor’) in Ghana and the way forward is available for download via…
Myself and IMANI Ghana have teamed up to publish our independent first quarter (Q1) 2014 assessment of some of the most pressing issues confronting Ghana’s energy sector. Please let us…
Questions! Questions!! Questions!!! 1. What’s happened to our efforts to bring more inbound diasporan FDIs into the country? 2. Have we lost our competitive edge as the gateway to West…
This is how vision and strategic planning transformed Aberdeen, a once ‘sleepy’ fishing town into the oil capital of Europe and made many local entrepreneurs who actively participated in the…
This week, international news media reported that France’s Total had struck oil on the CI-100 block off Ivory Coast adjacent to Ghana’s giant Jubilee Field. The block is very close…
The last time we were told our inability to import crude oil for the refinery was due to difficulties with raising letters of credit (LC’s) as a result of arrears…