a Japanese company, GJK International Company Limited, has installed a solar energy plant at Pediatorkope, an island community in the Dangme East District, to provide power for the local health facility and other communities.
The initiative, which is on a pilot basis at the cost of US$50,000, is to power the only health institution in the area to enable it to function effectively, with a separate solar plant to also power street lights in the area.
A seven-member delegation from GJK, in the company of officials from the Energy Ministry and the district assembly, inaugurated the plants and officially handed them over to the community on Tuesday.
The leader of the delegation, Mr Koji Yamaguchi, who is also the President of GJK, who spoke through an interpreter, said Dr Charles Brempong-Yeboah, a Ghanaian who lived in Japan for many years, was contracted to conduct a study on the community which revealed that the area lacked electricity supply.
To that end, a conscious effort was made to assist the community.
Expressing his delight, the Dangme East District Chief Executive, Mr Rex Wussah, said the 22 deprived communities on the island were not connected to the national grid.
He said he was of the hope that with a solar power in place, the area would witness a remarkable change in terms of improved socio-economic activities.
He expressed gratitude to GJK for the gesture and expressed the hope that a stronger collaboration between the assembly and the Energy Ministry would see the extension of the project to other communities on the island.
The Director of Renewable Energy at the Ministry of Energy, Mr Wisdom Ahiataku-Togobo, who represented the sector minister, said the absence of electricity had an effect on health institutions, as it had the tendency of frustrating working conditions.
He expressed the ministry’s commitment to ensure that every community in the country enjoyed modern forms of energy, adding that since the 1990s more than 4,000 communities had been connected to the national grid.
He said about 800 communities had been targeted for connection to the national grid in 2011, with 33 of them from the Dangme East District.
The initiative, which is on a pilot basis at the cost of US$50,000, is to power the only health institution in the area to enable it to function effectively, with a separate solar plant to also power street lights in the area.
A seven-member delegation from GJK, in the company of officials from the Energy Ministry and the district assembly, inaugurated the plants and officially handed them over to the community on Tuesday.
The leader of the delegation, Mr Koji Yamaguchi, who is also the President of GJK, who spoke through an interpreter, said Dr Charles Brempong-Yeboah, a Ghanaian who lived in Japan for many years, was contracted to conduct a study on the community which revealed that the area lacked electricity supply.
To that end, a conscious effort was made to assist the community.
Expressing his delight, the Dangme East District Chief Executive, Mr Rex Wussah, said the 22 deprived communities on the island were not connected to the national grid.
He said he was of the hope that with a solar power in place, the area would witness a remarkable change in terms of improved socio-economic activities.
He expressed gratitude to GJK for the gesture and expressed the hope that a stronger collaboration between the assembly and the Energy Ministry would see the extension of the project to other communities on the island.
The Director of Renewable Energy at the Ministry of Energy, Mr Wisdom Ahiataku-Togobo, who represented the sector minister, said the absence of electricity had an effect on health institutions, as it had the tendency of frustrating working conditions.
He expressed the ministry’s commitment to ensure that every community in the country enjoyed modern forms of energy, adding that since the 1990s more than 4,000 communities had been connected to the national grid.
He said about 800 communities had been targeted for connection to the national grid in 2011, with 33 of them from the Dangme East District.
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