By 2030, the Ministry of Energy plans to provide three million units of clean biogas cookstoves to homes.
Liquefied Petroleum Gas will be used to cover 50% of the population (LPG).
The Deputy Minister of Energy, Mr Andrew Kofi Egyapa Mercer, stated this during the commencement of the third edition of the Energy Commission's Senior High Schools' Renewable Energy Challenge in Accra.
The competition aims to educate and raise awareness about renewable energy technology among the country's senior/technical schools.
The theme of this year's Challenge was "Clean Cooking & Food," with the goal of encouraging young students to think creatively and provide mentorship so that they may come up with unique ideas for national development.
It was also to encourage the transition of ideas and concepts into actual projects and product development in our public second-cycle schools, so promoting research and development.
Mr Mercer believes that the Renewable Energy Challenge will help the government achieve its policy objectives.
"In that context, the Ministry of Energy aims to finance the continued development and promotion of this year's challenge's most remarkable and creative clean cooking institution," he added.
He asked the students to think more deeply and ponder more deeply in order to provide the greatest presentations that may alter the cooking industry. Mr Julius Nkansah-Nyarko, Senior Manager, Energy Commission, and Program Coordinator, encouraged students interested in ICT programming and coding to take advantage of the opportunity.
A team of four students and a teacher may be formed at a participating school, and they must submit information of their planned projects to the Regional Coordinator of Science, Technology, Mathematics, and Innovation Education.
These projects will be sent to the Director of the Science Education Unit in Accra, who will work with the Ghana Education Service to complete them (GES).
Regional contests would take place from the first week of June to the first week of July, with dates to be announced later.
The Commission and GES will choose three outstanding schools from each zone to compete in the finals, which will be held under the auspices of the Commission and GES.
Gyaama Pensan Senior High and Technical School in Aboaso in the Ashanti Region won the second round of the Challenge, which was conducted in 2021 because to the Covid-19 epidemic in 2020.
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