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.

After a lengthy approval- and registration process, which took us more than 3 years, the required land lease contract for the part of the project area, which is managed by the Government of Ghana, could be signed recently

In February 2017, meetings between the new Government of Ghana and NEK / Lekela took place in connection with the realisation of the 225 MW Wind Farm Ayitepa.