Ethiopia’s Reppie Waste Energy Facility To Be Commissioned in December 2017September 1, 2017 - The 50-megawatt (MW) Reppie Waste to Energy facility, which Ethiopia claims to be the first of its kind in Africa, will be commissioned in December, according to Ethiopian government officials. “The facility in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa is 94.3-percent complete as of July,” said Bizuneh Tolcha, minster at Ethiopia’s Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE). The project is being built on Ethiopia's largest landfill commonly called "Koshe" (meaning dirty in Ethiopia's official working language Amharic), lying on 5.3 hectares of land. It is to be fully covered by Ethiopia's government and when complete will process 350,000 tonnes of solid waste annually," said the Ethiopian minster. He further said Reppie once commissioned will stop 46,494 tonnes of methane gas emission annually, helping achieve Ethiopia's Climate Resilient Green Economy strategy (CRGE).

Source: Ethiopian News September 01, 2017 21:56 UTC