Early Warning Project to Bolster Energy Sector Resilience
The Early Warnings for Energy (EW4Energy) project has kicked off with an all-project meeting in Kumasi, Ghana.
The project seeks to improve Ghana’s ability to predict short-term, high-impact weather events such as storms and lightning that disrupt the energy sector, and to develop data-driven tools that will strengthen infrastructure and disaster response.
Led by the University of Leeds in partnership with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), the University of Cape Coast, the Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet), and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, EW4Energy integrates satellite data, AI, and lightning detection systems to produce rapid, impact-based forecasts tailored to Ghana’s climate.