Ghana

TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

Estimated available energy sources
 Fossil Fuels Nuclear  Renewables
Solid Liquid Gas Uranium Hydro Other
Renewable
Total amount in specific units* 0 383.57 66106.82 0 1580 300
Total amount in Exajoule (EJ) 0 16.769 1173.667 0 0.0299 0.002554

TABLE 2. ENERGY STATISTICS (UNITS: EXA JOULE – EJ)

Average annual growth rate (%)
1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010* 2000 to 2010*
Energy consumption**
- Total 0.046758
 0.053348
 0.056273
 0.114674
 0.11286
 0.157141
 3.20
- Solids*** 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Liquids * 0.036697
 0.03662
 0.039633
 0.089749
 0.091564
 0.114457
 2.46
- Gases 0 0 0 0 0 0.014873
 0
- Nuclear 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Hydro ** 0.010061
 0.016728
 0.01664
 0.024925
 0.021296
 0.027811
 0.27
- Other
Renewables		 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Energy production
- Total 0.010374
 0.018998
 0.020595
 0.023795
 0.020263
 0.034968
 3.92
- Solids*** 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Liquids 0 0 0 0 0 0.007732
 not applicable
- Gases 0 0 0 0 0 0.002053
 not applicable
- Nuclear 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Hydro 0.010374
 0.018998
 0.020595
 0.023795
 0.020263
 0.025183
 0.57
- Other
Renewables		 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Net import (Import - Export)
- Total 0.036697 0.038200 0.036903 0.091447 0.092196 0.111237 1.98

TABLE 3. ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND CAPACITY

Average annual growth rate (%)
1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010* 2000 to 2010*
Capacity of electrical plants (GWe)              
- Thermal 0.06 0.06 0 0.47 0.55 0.9895 7.7
- Hydro 0.59 0.91 1.07 0.95 1.18 1.18 2.2
- Nuclear 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Wind 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Geothermal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- other renewable 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Total 0.65 0.97 1.07 1.42 1.73 2.14 4.3
Electricity production (TW.h)            
- Thermal 0.04 0.04 0.01 0.61 1.16 3.14277 17.8
- Hydro 2.88 5.28 5.72 6.61 5.63 6.995409 0.6
- Nuclear 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Wind 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Geothermal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- other renewable 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- Total (1) 2.92 5.32 5.73 7.22 6.79 10.13818 3.4
Total Electricity consumption (TW.h) 2.79 4.65 4.62 6.92 5.92 7.725313 1.1

TABLE 4: ENERGY RELATED RATIOS


 1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010*
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) 5.4624 4.7717 3.9106 6.0642 5.2986 6.3723
Electricity consumption per capita (kW.h/capita) 326.48 415.61 321.20 366.13 277.73 313.27
Electricity production/Energy production (%) 31.8966 38.4417 40.2376 39.9529 28.3929 47.4997
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ratio of external dependency (%) (1) 78.4828 71.6053 65.5785 79.7452 81.6906 70.7880