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Ivory Coast to produce power from cocoa waste

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Ivory Coast is set to produce biomass power from wastes from cocoa pods.

The West African nation is leading cocoa producer in the world. It hopes building a 60 to 70 megawatt (MW) capacity biomass power generation plant will argument its energy capacity.

The country intends realizing this dream by 2030. It is part of its aim of developing 424 MW of biomass power generation capacity.

U.S government support

The U.S. embassy in Abidjan said the plant is among five projects the U.S. agency for trade and development (USTDA) intends providing grants for.

In a statement the embassy said the plant should help Ivory Coast to diversify its electricity generation sources.

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The statement said on Monday that the biomass power station which would be the first in Ivory Coast, would be based in Divo, the southern cocoa region of the country.

Waste into resources

Ivory Coast produces some 2 million tonnes of cocoa annually. But thousands of tonnes of pods discarded during production are left to rot or burned.

The intended project should enable the country shore up its energy reserves which it already exports to neighbours like Ghana, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo and Mali.

 

Source: Africafeeds.com

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