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Ghanaian tycoon Joseph Siaw Agyepong's Jospong Group plans to build a solar-powered charging system for about 1,000 waste collection trucks it is switching from diesel to electric power in Ghana.
The group set out the plan at the COP31 United Nations climate conference in Antalya, Türkiye, where it has spent the week promoting African-led waste management and climate projects.
The charging network is meant to support a fleet conversion program that Jospong first announced in May 2023 with Zeronox Inc., a U.S. electric-vehicle technology company. Under that deal, the partners agreed to retrofit 1,000 of Jospong's diesel refuse trucks with electric drivetrains. The companies said at the time that the project would cut about 400,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions over five years and save $323 million.
Climate push in Antalya
Jospong has used the conference to pitch itself as a partner for governments looking to fund green projects. Glenn Gyimah, general manager of the group's Green Transition Office, called for closer cooperation between governments and private companies to tackle water pollution, and welcomed Ghana's selection as one of five countries for a push to develop bankable green projects backed by China. Ghanaian lawmaker Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings met the Jospong team on her arrival in Türkiye.
The group's waste business is also growing outside Ghana. Its Zoomlion Gambia unit, working with local partner Niro Company Ltd., began a waste management concession for the three councils of Greater Banjul on Oct. 28, and agreed this week with Gambian officials on a 100-day plan to improve collection in the capital area.
A sanitation empire
Agyepong founded Jospong in 1995 and built it around Zoomlion Ghana Ltd., which collects household and commercial waste across the country under contracts with local authorities. The group has since spread into printing, banking, hospitality and transport, and runs waste and sanitation operations in several other African countries.
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