While our 225 MW wind farm Ayitepa in Ghana is fully permitted in the meanwhile (www.upwindayitepa.com), the project at Konikablo is also making substantial development progress. As a next step, we have handed-in to the Energy Commission by mid of January 2018 the application for the so-called Siting Permit.
A delegation of engineers and managers of the Ghanaian Grid Operator GRIDCo and the Electricity Company of Ghana visited Lekela’s wind farms in South Africa. The one-week event took place in the second half of October 2017 and was attended by 15 people from ECG and GRIDCo.
Motivated by the success of the last Global Wind Day, where pupils from local schools were invited to share their ideas on wind energy in a drawing contest, we decided to carry out a similar event also this year.
The acting President of Switzerland, H.E. Doris Leuthard, paid an official two days visit to Ghana earlier this week. The main focus of her journey was the launch of a cooperation strategy for 2017 to 2020 between Switzerland and Ghana, which aims to strengthen the bilateral relationship between these two countries
With the preliminary layout of the 225 MW Wind Farm Ayitepa in Ghana determined, the time had come to start the initial geological-geotechnical field studies at the beginning of this week. The purpose of these field studies is to determine the top soil and ground structure and to obtain information on the ground water situation.
