Water and Energy Abstracts
  • Year: 2007
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue: 3

Ghana balances hydro and thermal

  • Author:
  • Neil Ford
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 36 to 36

(International Water Power and Dam Construction, April 2006, pp. 10–11).

Abstract

Following the 1998–1999 droughts in West Africa, the governments of Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire promised to concentrate their efforts on gas fired power plants rather than further hydroelectric investment. Now that the dust has settled, what is the future of hydro projects in the region? Author reports.

Keywords

Hydro project, hydroelectric investment