Ghana is set to receive a grant of €5 million from the German government for building a plant that will produce electricity from waste. An MoU to this effect was signed by Anja Karliczek, the German Federal Minister of Education and Research, and Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, the Ghanaian Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation. The project is part of Ghana’s Renewable Energy Plan that aims to transform waste into energy using hybrid solar photovoltaic, biogas and pyrolysis systems.
The unit will have a capacity of 400 kW and will be jointly implemented by three German research partners, six Ghanaian research centers, two German and three Ghanaian industrial partners. The construction of the plant is expected to start on October 1, 2019, to be commissioned by September 1, 2023.Based on the success of the pilot project, 10 more plants of a larger scale, would-be built-in Ghana.
