The Energy Media Group has launched
the sixth edition of the Ghana Energy Awards in Accra.
This
year’s awards, dubbed: Global decarbonisation: A just and equitable energy
transition in Ghana”, is scheduled to happen on November 25.
The
launch also marked the official opening of nominations for 23 categories, with
four new categories formed along the lines of the theme.
The Event Director of Energy Media
Group, Henry Teinor, said this year’s theme was a reflection of the most
topical discourse in the energy sector of the country, with a global focus on
what the award sought to achieve.
“As
we all are aware, current global discussion on energy chiefly revolves around
how countries are taking steps to make the transition from traditional fossil
fuels to less carbon generating energy sources, and every nation is responding
to the call on its own terms,” he said
Mr
Teinor added that nominations for the awards were opened for a three-month long
applications window after which the awarding panel would begin the stringent
process of scoring the nominees’ applications.
Energy transition
The
Chairman of the awarding panel, Kwame Jantuah, said the theme reflected the
President’s vision of combating climate change and was also in line with the
theme of the Ministry of Energy’s Ghana Energy Transition.
“Ours
is to assess how our nominees have struck the delicate balance between climate
change, pollution of the environment and energy transition vis-a-vis their
normal operations and whether these changes will continue to protect and expand
the country’s development or their quest to achieve this balance through their
operations will or has impacted negatively on the country’s development,” he
added.
Mr
Jantuah said there was a need for Ghana to develop its own strategy for the
transition and take into account a situation that could put the economy into a
position of stranded assets which could affect revenue, production of
electricity in the short to medium term and other anticipated challenges.
“It
is pretty obvious that this year’s theme seeks to generate answers to the
challenges faced in the sector, and we are convinced that as always, our
companies in this industry will live up to expectation as they have always done
with the Ghana Energy Awards,” he said.
He gave the assurance that this year’s
event would be better than the previous years and called for massive industry
participation and support.
Life blood
The
Deputy Director of Power of the Ministry of Energy, Dr Robert Sobgadji, said
energy was like the lifeblood of every country, adding that this year’s event
would go a long way to accelerate the implementation of the country’s energy
transition.
He
added that the theme for the awards was very timely to the country’s energy
transition efforts and pledged support to the awards scheme.
Source: Graphic.com.gh