NEW Energy, a Tamale-based NGO, in collaboration with DENG Solar Training Centre (DSTC), has organised a course for electrical technicians in Tamale to build up their capacity in solar energy conservation practices.
The week-long programme brought together participants from the Northern, Upper East and Brong Ahafo regions. They were taken through installation, maintenance and Stand Alone power system techniques. Samuel Adu-Asare of the DSTC indicated that the programme marked the beginning of such courses that would be organised later in the year.
He noted that such training exercises had often been centred in southern Ghana “but this time round we have decided to extend our services to the north where more installation of solar systems are ongoing”.
According to Mr Adu-Asare, the DSTC was established in 2005 with technical collaboration from the Global Sustainable Energy Solutions of Australia and the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Agriculture of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
The programme manager of New Energy, Mr Imoro Shaibu, explained that his outfit, which started operations in the Northern Region in 1995 in the area of water and sanitation, had now expanded to energy, environment and sustainable livelihoods.
He said in the energy sector, his organisation had been promoting the safer use of solar energy, wood fuel and Liquefied Petroleum Gas in its operational areas in the Northern and Brong Ahafo regions.
“We have also supported the setting up of three solar small businesses to provide LPG and wood stoves services in educational institutions in the four northern regions including Brong Ahafo,” he stated.
Mr Shaibu further explained that the organisation had the aim of developing the northern part of the country through improving the socio-economic lives of the people.
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