Abstract
In West Africa, household energy transition is synonymous with conversion from woodfuel to LPG. With an ever-increasing awareness for the use of clean fuels, the Government of Ghana initiated the Ghana LPG Promotion Programme in 1990 with the primary aim of eliminating the flaring of LPG at Tema Oil Refinery and encouraging the citizenry to switch to LPG usage due to its advantages over wood fuel. The Ghana LPG Promotion Programme has received good responses from citizens since its inception; however, there are some challenges that have to be addressed to ensure the long-term aim of the programme is accomplished and sustained. Data shows that only 24 percentage of the Ghanaian households as of 2017 had access to clean cooking fuels (GSS 2017). Transitions towards clean cooking fuels are multidimensional and involve complexities, nonlinearity and contingencies, but policy making processes tends to simplify them. This seminar present a qualitative analysis on urban household energy transitions showing the complex interrelationships among the different policies/interventions variables and presents the basis for simulating different scenarios of household energy transitions.

Biography
Aba Obrumah Crentsil is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economics Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana. Aba is a Developmental Social Scientist with special interest in Public Health and Environment, Urban and Regional Development and Energy Use and Public Policy. Her recent work has focused on examining the synergies and trade-offs between the implementation of SDG 7 and other SDGs in Ghana.