The pathway for electricity prosumption in Ghana

Forson Peprah, Samuel Gyamfi, Eric Effah-Donyina and Mark Amo-Boateng

Energy Policy, 2023, vol. 177, issue C

Abstract: The shortfall of the feed-in-tariff (FiT) mechanism led to net metering and net billing, seen as the comprehensive instrument for developing electricity prosumption globally. Following the global trend, Ghana has adopted net metering for its electricity sustainability development. Despite adopting the net metering scheme in Ghana, prosumption faces many challenges. The paper explores the key factors influencing prosumer deployment in Ghana from policy, regulatory and people's perspectives and suggests a better pathway for Ghana's prosuming path. This study reveals several challenges that prosumers face that discourage many people from investing in photovoltaic installations in Ghana. Among the challenges are policy and regulatory gaps, inelastic electricity tariff structure and the unwillingness of distribution system operators to accept prosumers into the grid with the perception of losing the prosumers as consumers.

Keywords: Renewable energy; Prosumer; Net metering; Policy; Economy; Electricity tariff (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113582

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