Ghana: AGI-ESC collaborates with IEPA for global energy certifications

By InstinctBusiness Dec 13, 2023 0

The Association of Ghana Industries-Energy Service Centre (AGI-ESC) has collaborated with the Institute of Energy Professionals Africa (IEPA) to implement Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) Certification programs and other training opportunities in Ghana.

This initiative aligns with AGI-ESC’s mission to encourage energy efficiency and promote the adoption of renewable energy practices and technologies among commercial and industrial entities. The goal is to contribute to cost reduction in energy for businesses.

This also comes in handy as the country requires certified energy professionals to champion making renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions readily available and accessible to industrial and commercial users, and also to fuel Ghana’s quest of achieving a 10 percent renewable energy component in the national energy mix by 2030.

With this partnership, interested persons can be trained and certified here in Ghana.

“Having the possibility to train certified engineers here in Ghana is a big step. Before, it was possible – but you would have to do it online or travel to the United States (US) to be trained. But now we can have trainers come here through this partnership,” noted Chief Technical Advisor at AGI-ESC, Barbel Freyer.

With the whole world going green, this training and certification, she is confident, will open up employment opportunities for energy professionals in the carbon and emission savings-energy efficiency industry.

“If I look at the fact that you only have four certified professionals in Ghana that can work in this industry, then I think this partnership is crucial and needs to be developed – because we need them to mentor the youths to get younger people into the industry. The future for green generation and green energy use lies with the youth, and we need certified professionals to mentor them and implement projects,” said Executive Director-IEPA, Yolanda De Lange.

IEPA has been providing AEE certification programs in the sub-Saharan African region for nearly two decades.