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It is the official goal of Ghana energy industry to have 10% of Ghana's energy mix come from renewable sources (not counting large-scale hydropower) by 2015 or at the very latest by 2020. [23] Ghana has Class 4-6 wind resources at locations of the high wind areas – such as Nkwanta, the Accra Plains, Kwahu and Gambaga mountains.
The minister for energy and petroleum is the head of the ministry and is directly accountable to the President of Ghana. The position is politically appointed and approved by parliament of Ghana. The current minister is John Abdulai Jinapor who succeeds Herbert Krapa under the Nana Akufo-Addo administration government.
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) is a Ghanaian governing body established to report to the presidency. [1] The GSS conducts Population and Housing Census in the country. [ 2 ]
The top income tax and corporate tax rates are 25%. Other taxes included with value-added tax (VAT), are the national health insurance levy, and a capital gains tax. The overall tax burden was 12.1% of Ghana's total domestic income in 2013. Ghana's national budget was the equivalent of 39.8% of GDP in 2013. [31]
The corporation was created to promote the Government of Ghana's objective of supplying adequate and reliable petroleum for the country and the discovery of crude oil in the country's territories. And also to help in reducing the country's dependence on crude oil imports, through the development of the country's own petroleum resources.
The intensification of the application of safe and sound environmental practices; The development and promotion of a science and technology culture at all levels of society. Trees make environment looks beautiful and provide shade The development of the sector's institutionalized delivery capacities in human resource management, infrastructure ...
The Petroleum Commission is a Ghanaian state agency under the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum responsible for the regulation, management and coordination of all activities in the upstream petroleum industry for the benefit and welfare of Ghanaians. [1] The commission was established in 2011 as an independent regulator in the petroleum sector ...
The Energy Commission of Ghana was founded by the enactment of an Act of the Parliament of Ghana, Energy Commission Act, 1997(Act 541).The primary supervisory body for the commission is the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum (Ghana). [1] [5] Its precursor was the National Energy Board, started in 1989. [6]