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Government in Ghana has initiated plans to increase access to lighting in off-grid homes by increasing solar lanterns in rural non-electricity households to two million. It has also promised to scale up the Renewable Energy Programme.

Mr. Boateng- Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Security Systems International Limited (3SiL),said these are initiatives that can easily be attained with the right private sector partnership.He stated that as the preferred developers for the 50 Megawatt solar hybrid Bui Power Authority project,Strategic Power Solutions(SPS)-the subsidiary company of 3SiL , is willing to work with the Government and the Ministry of Energy to complete the project in a timely and cost-effective manner”, he  stressed..

He said SREP would see to the implementation of 55 mini-grids, 38,000 solar home systems in off-grid communities and 15,000 units of solar rooftop installations to increase the renewable energy component in Ghana’s energy mix. Mr Boateng said the SPS launched West Africa’s only solar manufacturing plant in March, last year, and had since produced 30 megawatts of power to be upgraded to 100 megawatts by the end of 2017.

SPS launched West Africa’s only solar manufacturing plant in March last year and has since produced at the capacity of 30 Megawatts which will be upgraded to 100 Megawatts by the end of 2017. Its parent company, 3SiL, has under the “Solar Lighting Programme’, distributed 1.2 million solar torch lights to farmers across cocoa, sheanut and coffee growing areas of the country.