Ghana’s decades-old ambition to build an integrated aluminium industry faces a new hurdle:  the clean energy transition

Theophilus Acheampong; Matthew Tyce

Ghana’s decades-old ambition to build an integrated aluminium industry faces a new hurdle: the clean energy transition

Theophilus Acheampong, Matthew Tyce

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Abstract

It has been more than 60 years since Ghana’s first post-independence leader Kwame Nkrumah first mooted the idea that Ghana should produce aluminium from the country’s ample supply of bauxite...

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 25 Mar 2024

Keywords

economy
trade
industry
aluminium
natural gas
natural resources
Ghana
decarbonisation
Bauxite
energy transition
mining industry
raw minerals
green hydrogen
carbon capture utilisation and storage
green transition
mineral extraction
net zero transition

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