The Chairman of the Energy Commission, Prof. Abeeku Brew-Hammond is proposing the decentralization of electricity distribution. He says the current situation where the management of electricity was controlled from Accra created avoidable inefficiencies. He was speaking at an energy seminar organized by KITE Clean Energy Solutions in Accra. According to Prof. Brew-Hammond, restructuring the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and the Northern Electricity Department (NED) into regional companies or several separate business units will introduce efficient efficiency in the sector. The Energy Commission Chairman also suggested the establishment of a transparent cross-subsidy tariff mechanism to deal with poverty variations across the country. He expressed concern that currently the quantum of subsidy enjoyed by electricity consumers in the poorest parts of the country was shrouded in secrecy. Prof. Brew-Hammond, who is also a lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, stressed the need for central government to support access programmes with regional industrilisation to facilitate a more productive use of energy. He said spending huge sums of money to extend electricity to places where the power can only be used for drumming and dancing cannot be a sustainable economically viable thing to do. Veering off from electricity to other sources of energy, Prof. Brew-Hammond said Ghana’s access to LPG was unacceptably low – about 12 per cent. The Energy Minister, Dr. Oteng Adjei, has subsequently directed the Energy Commission to increase access to the product to 50 percent by 2015. Dr Oteng Adjei in a speech read on his behalf, expressed regret that firewood and charcoal still account for 65 percent of the country’s energy needs. “The contribution of modern fuels in the total energy mix of Ghana has been modest. Hydropower and petroleum products, together account for less than 35 percent total energy used in Ghana,” he said.