Wednesday, 09 January 2013- ConstructionThe Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation has struck a 120 million US dollar agreement with British company Cambridge Industries Limited to construct what it refers to as the first Sub-Saharan Africa Waste-To-Energy facility.The agreement signed last week at the Addis Ababa Hilton Hotel contracts for the construction of a facility with the capacity to generate 50 Mega Watts of power.The project is to be fully financed by funds from the Ethiopian government it was learned. The waste to energy conversion plant will be constructed in the Repi area of Addis Ababa on a plot owned by the EEPCo.The plant is expected to provide ‘clean and green’ power to the national grid as well as helping to manage solid waste generated in the city explained Mihiret Debebe Chief Executive Officer of EEPCo.The proximity of the plant to the city will save a significant amount of energy wasted in transporting power to the city from more remote locations he noted. The speed of delivery makes this a viable element of meeting the power generation objectives set for the power sector according to Mihiret.The potential to generate energy from waste exists in 35 municipalities in Ethiopia according to a recent study added Mihiret.Source: Capital
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