The Ministry of Energy with funding from South Korea will from December 2020 distribute five hundred thousand improved cookstoves free of charge to selected homes in the Central, Eastern, Ashanti and Greater Accra Regions.
Modalities for selecting beneficiaries are being worked out.
The objective is to address climate change through the reduction in charcoal production.
Addressing a stakeholder meeting in Accra, a Director of Renewable and Alternative Energy, Wisdom Ahiataku-Togobo asked South Korea to scale up the project to include improved stoves that will use Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG.
A six-man delegation led by the Vice President of Korea East-West Power Corporation has paid a courtesy call on Deputy Minister of Energy in charge of Finance and Infrastructure, Joseph Cudjoe.
The meeting focused on the manufacturing and distribution of five hundred thousand improved cookstoves in four regions.
Mr. Joseph Cudjoe signed the Memorandum of Understanding for the project last year. He reiterated the importance the country attaches to the project.
The Vice President of the Korea East-West Power, a government company, Ochul Kwon, speaking through an interpreter called for collaboration between the two countries to improve the living conditions of the people.
