Energy & Environment

The water level behind Ghana's two largest hydro dams at the end of every month — Akosombo from 2000 and Bui from 2014, to 2025 — in feet above sea level, with each dam's minimum operating level (240 ft and 550 ft) and how far above it the lake stood. Akosombo's lowest levels here (235 ft in July 2007, 238 ft through mid-2015) fall in years of national load shedding, and its highest (277 ft) was reached in 2010 and again in October 2023, the year of the Akosombo spillage. The published Bui figures for 2018 repeat 2017 month for month and are marked in note. Sourced from the National Energy Statistics 2026 (Energy Commission of Ghana); official statistics republished with attribution. 456 records.

Electricity carried on the national transmission grid each year, 2000 to 2025, and how much of it was lost on the way, in gigawatt-hours. losses_pct_published is the share as the Commission prints it; losses_pct_computed is losses divided by electricity transmitted from the same table. The two agree except for 2010-2017, where the printed share does not follow from the printed figures (by up to 0.5 points, in both directions); use the computed share for a consistent series. Sourced from the National Energy Statistics 2026, "Electricity Transmitted and Transmission Losses (GWh)", PDF page 28, compiled by the Commission from GRIDCo; official statistics republished with attribution. 26 records.

How often and for how long electricity customers lose power, by distribution utility (ECG in the south, NEDCo in the north, EPC) and area (metro, urban, rural), 2020 to 2025: SAIFI is the average number of interruptions per customer in the year, SAIDI the average hours without power per customer, CAIDI the average hours to restore supply after an interruption. Each row carries the regulatory benchmark set by L.I. 1935 for that area, so a figure can be read against the standard. The Commission's published 2025 rows for ECG and NEDCo repeat 2024 exactly and are marked in note. EPC reports one figure for its whole area, kept under metro. Sourced from the National Energy Statistics 2026, "Electricity Distribution Reliability Indices", PDF page 39; official statistics republished with attribution. 40 records.

The highest electricity demand the grid met each year, 2000 to 2025, in megawatts. ghana_peak_mw is demand within Ghana — ECG, NEDCo, VRA's direct customers, the mines and VALCO — and system_peak_mw adds exports to neighbouring countries. Read against installed capacity and the dam levels in hydro_dam_levels, it shows how much headroom the system has before load shedding. Sourced from the National Energy Statistics 2026, "Ghana and System Peak Load (MW)", PDF page 27, compiled by the Commission from VRA and GRIDCo; official statistics republished with attribution. 26 records.

Why each district lost its trees, year by year from 2001 to 2025: hectares of tree cover loss split by the dominant driver of the 1 km cell it happened in — permanent agriculture (cocoa, oil palm, other crops), hard commodities (mining and energy, the closest open measure of galamsey), shifting cultivation, logging, wildfire, settlements and infrastructure, and other natural disturbances. The driver is modelled for each cell over the whole period, so it says what most of the loss there was caused by, not what caused every hectare. A district-year-driver with no loss has no row. At 30% canopy density, matching tree_cover_loss. Sourced from Global Forest Watch (WRI and Google DeepMind, Sims et al. 2025), CC BY 4.0. 12134 records.

How much tree cover each of Ghana's districts lost, every year from 2001 to 2025, in hectares, measured from Landsat satellite imagery by the University of Maryland and published by Global Forest Watch. Each row also gives the district's tree cover in 2000, the loss of humid primary forest (where the district has any; NULL where it has none), and the greenhouse gas emitted by that year's loss in tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Tree cover means vegetation over 5 metres tall at 30% canopy density or more, so it includes cocoa, rubber and oil palm as well as natural forest, and loss includes harvests and fires, not only deforestation. The driver behind each hectare is in tree_cover_loss_by_driver. Sourced from Global Forest Watch (Hansen et al. 2013; Harris et al. 2021), CC BY 4.0. 6500 records.

Access to electricity and clean cooking in Ghana, urban and rural, the renewable share of energy consumption, energy intensity and investment in the energy sector. 11 series covering 1990-2016. Sourced from World Bank Open Data, CC BY 4.0. 277 records.

The World Bank's ESG dataset for Ghana: emissions and energy, natural resource depletion, food and water stress, health and education outcomes, inequality, labour standards, governance and regulatory quality — the indicators sovereign ESG assessments are built from. 80 series covering 1960-2025. Sourced from World Bank Open Data, CC BY 4.0. 2619 records.

Emissions from individual sources in Ghana — power stations, mines, refineries, cement works, landfills, farms and roads — estimated from satellite observation, in tonnes of CO2 equivalent, with the coordinates of each asset. The ESG dataset that names the emitter. Sourced from Climate TRACE, via HDX (CC BY 4.0). 2454 records.

Green Climate Fund projects in Ghana: the accredited entity, theme, financing instrument, amounts committed and disbursed, and where each project stands. Sourced from Green Climate Fund, via HDX (CC BY 4.0). 13 records.

How much of each Ghanaian district burned each year since 2000, measured from satellite — bush fires and agricultural burning, which in the north are a seasonal fact and a real risk to crops, plantations and air quality. Sourced from Action Against Hunger, via HDX (CC BY-IGO). 25480 records.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the energy Ghanaian agriculture consumes — diesel, petrol, electricity, gas — by gas and year. Sourced from FAO FAOSTAT, CC BY 4.0. 532 records.