(Ecofin Agency) - In Ghana, mining companies are turning to renewable energy, as an additional source of energy but also to cut down their cost of operation. Many of these firms indeed complain about the high cost of thermal energy.

“Many of the companies are now looking at renewable energy sources because of the cost of thermal based energy resources. Most of them are looking at even their own generation as they mix with what is available from government so I believe that it will become part of their energy status. We are going to combine the renewable bit and in fact the chamber of mines is actively investigating that option,” Chief Executive Officer of the Minerals Commission, Dr. Tony Aubynn told Citi Business News.

The project aims to help mining companies achieve power sufficiency and reduce burden of national power grid.

Gwladys Johnson