Tuesday 25 October 2016

Ebonyi to generate 5.5mw of electricity from rice husk biomass plant


The government of Ebonyi State is to purchase a 5.5-megawatt biomass plant from Germany which would utilise rice husk and other available waste materials to generate electricity, Vanguard reports.
The governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, disclosed this after inspecting two of the three state-owned rice modern mills. Umahi said the plant would arrive the country in the next four months.
The inspection visit took the governor to Iboko in Izzi Local Government Area and Ikwo where he inspected the condition of the facilitates and said that one megawatt of rice husk plant and another 500 kilowatts would also arrive the state soon.

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