Barriers and prospects of smart grid adoption in Ghana

Barriers and prospects of smart grid adoption in Ghana

Amevi Acakpovi, Ruhiya Abubakar, Nana Yaw Asabere, Issah B Majeed

Distributed generation presents the potential solution to the power deficit problem faced in developing counties by encouraging local generation with renewable energy resources that are abundantly available in some part of the world, especially in Ghana. Distributed generations on the other hand are closely linked to Smart Grid (SG) that uses information technology to manage electricity networks. A plethora of problems relating to safety, reliability and affordability of Smart grid solutions remains challenging today. In Africa, especially in Ghana, the adoption of smart grid has been very slow, poorly managed, and almost inexistent in some countries despite the crucial need for electricity provision. This slow adoption can be attributed to many limiting factors that demand a thorough investigation. This paper aims at investigating the barriers to the adoption of smart grids in Africa and also develops and evaluates …

Elsevier

2019

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=AhSMvB8AAAAJ&citation_for_view=AhSMvB8AAAAJ:Zph67rFs4hoC

English