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| Title: | Energy accessindicatorsandtrendsinGhana |
| Authors: | Mensah, Gifty Serwaa
Kemausuor, Francis
Brew-Hammond, Abeeku |
| Keywords: | Universalenergyaccess
Indicators
Single
Multidimensional |
| Issue Date: | 2013 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Abstract: | Providingaccesstomodernenergyservicesfordevelopmentisadauntingtaskwhichrequiresrigorous
planning basedonrobustinformation.Energyaccessindicatorsenablemeasurementandmonitoringof
the progressofenergyaccessexpansionefforts,thusinformingcorrectiveeffortsandeffortsworth
replicating. Thispaperreviewswhathasbeenproposedtoconstituteenergyaccessandenergyaccess
indicators. Thepaperfurtherreviewsbriefly thedifferenttypesofenergyaccessindicatorsandanalyses
access tomodernenergyinGhanaasmeasuredusingtheenergyaccessindicatorsemployedinGhana.
The paperconcludesthatGhanahasachievedcommendableaccesstomodernenergyservicescompared
to hersub-Saharanpeersbutrecommendsfurthereffortstoachievethesettargetsofuniversalaccessto
electricity by2020and50%accesstoLPGby2020.Thepaper finally recommendsfurtherworkonthe
different typesofindicatorswhicharerelevantfortrackingenergyaccessprogressbutarenotcurrently
employedinthecountry. |
| Description: | This article is published in Elsevier and also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2013.10.032 |
| URI: | 10.1016/j.rser.2013.10.032
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/13624 |
| Appears in Collections: | College of Science
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