About 90,000 dwellers in remote rural parts of the country are to benefit from solar power under a Global Partnership on Output Aid, GPOBA, programme being administered by the World Bank. 

In a grant agreement the Bank signed with the Government $4.35 million will be used to fund the programme which will increase access to electricity in the rural areas through the provision of renewable energy technology. 

A release issued by the World Bank in Accra stated that a range of solar photovoltaic products which at the minimum can support several lights, radio and black and white TV for a few hours.   

The World Bank County Director for Ghana , Burkina Faso , Guinea , Liberia and Sierra Leone , Mr. Isaac Diwan said the GPOBA project will make renewable energy available to poor households and contribute both to environmental protection and poverty reduction in Ghana . 

The GPOBA grant is to make solar PV systems affordable for poor rural customers by subsidizing 50% of the cost to be paid only when services have been delivered.  The GPOBA project would also drew funds from the UK Department for International Development and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.