Smart Economy in Smart African Cities by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811334719
Publisher: Springer Singapore

7.5.1.3 Energy Efficient Appliances

Appliances such as refrigerators, washers, dryers, and water heaters consume most of the energy in homes. Energy efficiency appliances use less energy than the standard ones and hence, reduce electricity bills and energy demand. Many African countries offer consumers incentives to purchase to purchase energy efficient products. Ghana has made significant progress in regulating energy saving appliances.

Box 7.4 Ghana Refrigerator Program

To improve energy efficiency, Ghana enacted 2 legislation aimed at regulating energy saving refrigerator, making it illegal to import refrigerators and phase out the use of inefficient refrigerators. Ghana refrigerator programme used rebate system was to get old fridges from homes and replace them with energy efficient refrigerators. The progamme was launched in the national capital in November 2012 and by December 2013, the scheme had been up scaled to all the 10 regional capitals. By December 2015 when the project was officially brought to an end, 10 000 new and efficient fridges had replaced the old and inefficient ones in the homes through the rebate scheme alone. Many others, who had the financial means, replaced their appliances without applying for the rebate. The share of new refrigerating appliances is now over 90% of the market. The annual emissions reductions increase linearly from 2010 from zero to approximately 100,000 tons/year in 2025.24

Source Hagan et al. 2006.

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