New bioethanol and power production in Sierra Leona
Addax Bioenergy has started producing sugarcane bioethanol and renewable electricity at its facility in Makeni, Sierra Leone. The company plans to produce 85,000 cm/y of bioethanol by end-2016. The project involves the development of a greenfield 10,000 hectare sugarcane plantation, the construction of a bioethanol refinery and a biomass-fuelled cogeneration plant to produce green power and contribute about 20% of Sierra Leone’s national electricity requirements. It has been developed in partnership with eight development finance institutions and is the only bioethanol project to be brought to financial close in Africa to date, according to Addax.
The project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 56,000 t/y of carbon dioxide through the replacement of fossil fuel-intensive energy, and is the first initiative in Sierra Leone to be registered as a clean development mechanism (CDM) project of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Countries: West Africa - Sierra Leone -
Subjects: Liquid biofuels, Biomass, Biomass, Carbon dioxide
