Climate Resilient Renewable Energy Implementation and Management, Ghana

Ghana Scaling Renewable Energy Program (SREP) Mini-Grid and PV Net Metering Project: Consultancy Services for Climate Resilient Asset Implementation & Management Guide

Date

08/2022-12/2022

Country

Ghana

Client

Global Center on Adaptation (GCA)

Financing Institution

African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

Partners

Danish Energy Management (DEM), Le Groupe-conseil Baastel, Green & Blue Environment ApS (GBE)

Themes

Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience, Renewable Energy, Climate and Geospatial Data Sourcing, Stakeholder Engagement

Core Activities

Support Ghana in the electrification of lakeside and island communities that account for the remaining 15% in achieving universal access to electricity by 2030.
Increase access to clean and reliable electricity services and support low carbon socio-economic development.
Conduct a high-resolution climate risk assessment to identify the relevant current and projected climate hazards across the districts in the Bono East, Savannah, Oti, and Northern regions of Ghana.
Analyse the impacts of the identified climate hazards and associated climate risks to the planned solar Mini-grids and standalone solar home systems.
Develop climate-resilient technical guidelines for solar asset siting, design, operations, and maintenance to mitigate the impacts of climate hazards on solar Mini-grids and standalone solar home system.

Project Overview

The Ghana SREP Mini grid and Net metering with Solar PV project involves the development of 35 mini grids in the Volta Lake region and the deployment of 12,000 units of roof-mounted net-metered solar PV systems for public institutions, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and selected households within the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCO) networks. The project will also involve the deployment of up to 11,000 stand-alone solar home systems within the lakeside and island communities of Ghana. The project will contribute 13.5% of renewable energy to the Ghana energy mix excluding hydropower and create up to 2,865 jobs during the construction phase of which 30% will target women and youth. The project is also expected to mitigate greenhouse emissions of 0.7185 million tons of CO2 – equivalent through generation of renewable energy estimated at 111MWh annually.

The project will be implemented over a 4-year period. Direct beneficiaries of the project include 60 communities across 11 island districts through mini grids; 500 communities in 11 districts through standalone solar PV systems; 1,089 public buildings; 4,910 households and 6,001 SMEs under the solar PV net metering component.

m4eco is providing support to obtain all necessary climate and geo-data needed to conduct climate risk assessment. This will contribute to identifying climate resilient assets and areas. To achieve this, m4eco’s John Akubia coordinated a three-week field data collection during which he reached out to relevant stakeholders and beneficiaries across 58 communities and 11 districts selected for solar mini-grids and standalone solar home systems respectively in the Bono East, Northern, Savannah and Oti regions of Ghana.