Vitality effectivity is among the most sensible and impactful actions organizations and people can take to manage prices and scale back greenhouse gasoline emissions, says Deloitte Expertise and Transformation Companion Serwa Atiase Zogbenuku.
Talking at a webinar titled “Enhancing Vitality Effectivity: How Measuring Efficiency Can Decrease Constructing Prices and Scale back Greenhouse Fuel Emissions,” she stated there’s lots of uncertainty within the vitality world with components past our management.
“However there are particular components that we will management and we should be intentional about vitality effectivity,” she added.
Ing Seth Mafu, Director of Renewable Vitality and Inexperienced Transition, Ministry of Vitality and Inexperienced Transition, stated Ghana is at a crucial juncture the place geopolitical instability within the world vitality system and the Center East is as soon as once more exposing the vulnerabilities of its vitality programs and markets.
“Gas costs are altering in a single day, provide chains are straining, fiscal pressures are mounting, and on the identical time local weather impacts proceed to speed up. For nations like Ghana, this actuality presents an essential query: how will we construct inexpensive, safe and resilient vitality programs in an more and more unsure world?”
He continued that vitality effectivity is not only a technological choice, however an financial, safety and local weather technique. “In Ghana, its worth has already been confirmed and have to be additional enhanced as a conduit for vitality transition and funding planning, particularly within the constructed setting.”
He stated Ghana had intentionally put vitality effectivity on the heart of its vitality coverage, explaining that each the 2022 Vitality Coverage and the Vitality Transmission Framework acknowledge that managing demand is as essential as increasing provide.
He famous that bettering vitality effectivity is not only restricted to electrical energy, however highlights how clear cooking efforts scale back the effectivity of the complete vitality financial system. “Right now, cooking accounts for greater than 60% of Ghana’s remaining vitality consumption, and conventional cookstoves waste vitality, degrade forests and expose households to severe well being dangers. The improved Clear Stoves Program is now being applied throughout the nation and can scale back gas wooden consumption per family by as much as 60%.”
He concluded that vitality effectivity have to be handled as infrastructure, and that planning, finance and authorities coverage have to be handled with the identical seriousness as energy vegetation and grids.
