{"id":195232,"date":"2025-04-02T22:56:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-ghana-unveils-west-africas-largest-floating-solar-project-boosting-renewable-energy-ambitions\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:56:38","slug":"west-africa-ghana-unveils-west-africas-largest-floating-solar-project-boosting-renewable-energy-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-ghana-unveils-west-africas-largest-floating-solar-project-boosting-renewable-energy-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Ghana Unveils West Africa&#8217;s Largest Floating Solar Project, Boosting Renewable Energy Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Accra \u2014 <em> Ghana has launched West Africa&#8217;s largest floating solar project, marking a significant step towards increasing its renewable energy capacity. The country aims to raise its share of renewable energy from the current 1% to 10% by 2030. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The pioneering 5-megawatt floating solar installation is situated on the Black Volta River and was engineered by Ghanaian engineers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/buipower.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bui Power Authority<\/a> (BPA). This innovative project showcases <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/ghana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghana<\/a>&#8216;s commitment to leveraging clean energy and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504020414.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accra \u2014 Ghana has launched West Africa&#8217;s largest floating solar project, marking a significant step towards increasing its renewable energy capacity. The country aims to raise its share of renewable energy from the current 1% to 10% by 2030. The pioneering 5-megawatt floating solar installation is situated on the Black Volta River and was engineered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00640955:14e05984c6f37a02af4b09450a3bd182:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6287,19589,8531,7424,37243,4508,4509,10885,257,6504,11622,4631,254,6777,4375],"class_list":["post-195232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-ambitions","tag-boosting","tag-energy","tag-floating","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-largest","tag-news","tag-project","tag-renewable","tag-solar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unveils","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00640955:14e05984c6f37a02af4b09450a3bd182:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}