Climate targets: Energy

• NDC content

  9 targets

  • Scale up access and adoption of 2 million efficient cook stoves up to 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana's INDC
  • Scaling up of installation of power factor correction devices in 1,000 commercial and industrial facilities (capacitor banks)
    Energy
    Source:

    Ghana's INDC
  • Attain utility scale solar electricity installed capacity up to 150-250MW
    Energy
    Source:

    Ghana's INDC
  • Double energy efficiency improvement to 20% in industrial facilities
    Energy
    Source:

    Ghana's INDC
  • Scale up adoption of LPG use from 5.5% to 50% peri-urban and rural households up to 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana's INDC
  • Scale up renewable energy penetration by 10% by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana's INDC
  • Increase solar lantern replacement in rural non-electrified households to 2 million
    Energy
    Source:

    Ghana's INDC
  • Double energy efficiency to 20% in power plants
    Energy
    Source:

    Ghana's INDC
  • Scale up 120 MSCF natural gas replacement of light crude oil for electricity generation in thermal plants
    Energy
    Source:

    Ghana's INDC

• National laws and policies

  32 targets

  • 10 percent of installed power capacity to be renewables by 2028, in comparison to 1% in 2019
    Energy | Base year target | Target year: 2028 | Base year: 2018
    Source:

    Ghana Beyond Aid Charter Strategy

    Executive | 2019

  • increase waste-to-energy utility scale to 50.1 MWp by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • 18000 improved instiutional/commercial biomass cookstoves by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • 3000000 improved domestic biomass cookstoves by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • 12 MWp from mini/micro-grids by 2030 (300 units)
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • 50 MWp from wave power by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • 150.03 MWp from small/medium hydro plants by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • 20000 tonnes of biofuel by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • 100000 units of briquetting/pelleting by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • 428000 units of export charcoal by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • 1840123 units of local charcoal demand by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase woodlot cultivation to 428000 ha by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase domestic biogas units to 200 by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase instiutional biogas units to 500 by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase agricultural/industrial organic waste biogas units to 200 by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase biomass utility scale to 72 MWp by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase number of wind irrigation/water pumping units to 100 by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase standalone wind systems to 2 MWp by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase wind utility scale to 325 MWp by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase number of solar water heaters to 135000 by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase number of solar crop dryers to 700 by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase solar irrigation to 48.8 MWp by 2030 (46150 units)
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase solar powered streetlighting to 25 MWp by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase standalone solar PV to 20 MWp by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase distributed solar PV to 200 MWp by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase solar utility scale to 447.5 MWp by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • increase proportion of renewables in national energy feneration mix to 1363.63 MW by 2030
    Energy | Target year: 2030
    Source:

    Ghana Renewable Energy Master Plan

    Executive | 2019

  • 5,000 GWH saved, then 8,000 GWH by 2015, 2020 against a 2006 baseline
    Energy | Base year target | Target year: 2020 | Base year: 2006
    Source:

    Strategic National Energy Plan (SNEP) 2006-2020

    Executive | 2006

  • 1:1 fuel consumption per GDP growth by 2020
    Energy | Intensity target | Target year: 2020 | Base year: 2020
    Source:

    Strategic National Energy Plan (SNEP) 2006-2020

    Executive | 2006

  • 30% renewable rural electrification by 2020
    Energy | Base year target | Target year: 2020 | Base year: 2020
    Source:

    Strategic National Energy Plan (SNEP) 2006-2020

    Executive | 2006

  • 10% energy from renewables by 2020
    Energy | Base year target | Target year: 2020 | Base year: 2020
    Source:

    National Climate Change Policy (NCCP)

    Executive | 2013

    Strategic National Energy Plan (SNEP) 2006-2020

    Executive | 2006

  • 15% rural electrification by renewables by 2015, then 30% by 2020
    Energy | Trajectory target | Target year: 2020 | Base year: 2015, 2020
    Source:

    Strategic National Energy Plan (SNEP) 2006-2020

    Executive | 2006

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