At the 6th Ghana Energy Awards held in Accra, Prof. Kwaku Appiah-Adu, a Senior Policy Advisor at the Vice-Secretariat, President's Office of the President, won the Outstanding Energy Management Award.
Professor Appiah-Adu is the national coordinator of the Energy Sector Recovery Programme and a professor of strategy (ESRP).
He also serves as the Technical Working Group Chair for AfCFTA's Infrastructure Section. He participates in the National Asset Management Policy Working Group, the Digital Economy Policy Working Group, and the Working Group on the International Financial Services Centre.
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Prof. Appiah-Adu is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of more than 100 publications. He is also the author of several books and has been elected to the ANBAR Hall of Excellence for Outstanding Contribution to the Literature and Body of Knowledge.
The Cash Waterfall Mechanism (CWM), Natural Gas Clearinghouse (NGC), and the Integrated Planning Process for power based on the Energy Supply and Infrastructure Plan as well as amendments to the Public Financial Management Act were successfully established under his direction as the ESRP Coordinator, improving liquidity throughout the energy sector's value chain and allowing the Ministry of Finance to budget for and pay sector shortfalls.
The Energy Sector Task Force (ESTF) was founded and reconstituted, a policy on the least expensive fuel procurement strategy was released, and a policy on the competitive procurement of energy supply and service contracts was also released under Prof. Appiah-leadership. Adu's
He oversaw raising the Revised Weighted Average Cost of Gas (WACOG) to US$6.08/mmbtu in terms of cost-cutting measures; Karpowership was moved from Tema to Sekondi, and all of its engines were changed over to burn natural gas rather than HFO; completed the Takoradi Tema Interconnection Project (TTIP), which permits the flow of gas (up to 120 MMscfd) in the other direction from Takoradi to Tema; and Reduction, postponement, or cancellation of Tema LNG's take-or-pay commitments, as well as Takoradi LNG.
Other winners included Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the Minister of Energy, Emmanuel Antwi-Darkwa, CEO of VRA, D. Ben K.D. Asante, CEO of Ghana Gas, Sam Dubik Mahama, MD, ECG, Kofi Dzamesi, CEO of the Bui Power Authority, Dr. Ishmael Ackah, Executive Secretary of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, and Oscar Amonoo-Ne
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