About Us

The Brew-Hammond Energy Centre (TBHEC) since its opening in 2009, provides a platform for the pursuit of multidisciplinary research and development activities both within and beyond the walls of KNUST. The Centre is known for its excellence in sustainable energy research projects and development, and prides in itself for not only mobilizing expertise from the College of Engineering (CoE) but also from other Colleges of the university and outside the university community, if need be, whose conscientious efforts and contributions is fast-tracking the Centre’s vision to become ‘a Globally recognized Centre of Excellence for Energy in Africa’.

The Centre's projects can be categorized into the following thematic areas

Solar PV Technologies

Bio Energy Technologies

Energy Access

Renewable Energy Training

Renewable Energy/Efficiency

Climate Change/Development

Our Mission

The Energy Center, KNUST will strengthen the capacity of energy sector actors in Ghana, West Africa and the African continent as a whole, in order to contribute actively towards the replication and scaling up of successful energy technologies, policies and management practices, and increasing access to energy services for socio-economic development.

Our Vision

A globally-recognized Centre of excellence for energy in Africa

 

Objectives

  • Provide training, research and advisory services to public and private actors in energy technology, policy and management.
  • Support government and non-governmental organizations in the harvesting and dissemination of knowledge and best-practice in energy technology, policy and management.
  • Enhance capabilities of selected/ interested academic staff to conduct training and research in energy technology, policy and management.
  • Create an effective organizational framework for collaborative, interdisciplinary research and development, by departments in the CoE and allied faculties and departments, in the area of renewable and conventional energy technologies, with due cognizance of environmental and institutional imperatives, national and international development priorities and aspirations (KNUST Strategic Plan, MDGs, ECOWAS White Paper on Access to Energy Services and Ghana Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy - GPRSII).