Energy Transition Roadmap
Reducing our environmental impact is a core consideration in how we operate, and we have well established Health, Safety and Environment policies and procedures in place. In line with our mission, we are committed (in the long term) to providing energy solutions that are exclusively low carbon.
Basing our operations on transition technologies and fuels, as an interim step towards our long term objectives, allows us to develop the basic energy infrastructure required to provide clients access to reliable, sustainable and cost-effective energy. Over the next decade, we plan to convert our assets from transition solutions to low carbon energy solutions.
Transition Phase
Over the next decade, we will focus on 3 key objectives:
01
Expansion
Building and operating the basic energy infrastructure (natural-gas-fired power generation, natural gas midstream solutions and electricity transmission solutions) to deliver reliable, sustainable and affordable electricity and natural gas to our clients.
02
Conversion
Facilitating the conversion of clients’ equipment (stationary and mobile) from heavy hydrocarbons to natural gas fuels as a transition to hydrogen fuels.
03
Development
Developing wind and hydro-electric energy solutions to be built and operated during the Low Carbon Phase.
See our Operations to read about the facilities meeting our objectives.
Renewable Energy case study
We received approval from the Water Resources Commission to conduct feasibility studies for a small hydropower development on the Tano River in Western Ghana. Our first projects will together have an installed capacity of 12MW.
Wind power is another focus area. We have identified areas of high wind speeds in the Eastern Region in Kwahu South, and explored areas for wind development in the Northern Scarp East Forest Reserve. We received entry approval to begin project development and installed a 100-metre meteorological (met) mast on site to begin a one-year measurement program for wind speeds and directions.
We have partnered with ArcVera Energy for the wind analysis and plan to build a second met mast on the site by 2020 Q4. The two met masts will inform the total installed capacity on the site, with 25MW the current estimate for the potential energy production from the first phase, and scope for later expansion.
