SOLAR IS BEST SAYS AGSI
SOLAR IS BEST SAYS AGSI November 19, 2009 BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM ISD-BOLGATANGA MUNICIPAL The Association of Ghana Solar Industries [AGSI] has organised a stakeholders’ workshop in Bolgatanga for the media and representatives of decentralised departments including the Ghana Education Service, district assemblies and the Ghana Health Service. The workshop which was funded by the business advocacy fund [BUSAC Fund] aimed at lobbying policy makers such as heads of department, non-governmental organisations and the district assemblies to accept the installation and use of solar panel systems in their premises as the cheapest and most cost-effective means of power. A consultant to AGSI, Mr. Adabre Frank Adabre in a presentation disclosed that the association has been negotiating with the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service [CEPS] and VAT Service for the two bodies to scrap off tariffs on solar components in order to promote the use of solar energy in homes and...