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The West African republic of Sierra Leone might soon have its first biofuel plant through a pilot program from Maryland-based developer Tseai Energy Unlimited.
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Tseai Energy, still in its early stages of operation, will develop a production plant that will employ small-scale, anaerobic digestion technology.

The plant will process palm fruit abundant in the region into palm oil. Biomass digesters will be added to convert leftover agricultural waste into biogas, which would then be used to produce electricity.

The proposed plant will be constructed in the town of Mile 18, where Tseai Energy intends to buy parcels of land for the project.

“In cooperation with stakeholders here and in Sierra Leone, this is an opportunity to bring jobs, electricity, a good school and a medical clinic to a community that needs it,” says Trevor Young, chief executive of Tseai Energy.

Tseai Energy is set to meet with Sierra Leone stakeholders to finalize project plans. The company intends to set up a cooperative for the farmers who will provide the palm feedstock.

Tseai Energy will also meet with contractors who will build the plant and several schools and renovate a clinic, part of the company’s overall plant proposal for the town.

Tseai Energy said it will further consult Njala University’s agronomists, the country’s education and agriculture ministries.

Earlier this month Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma praised another $400 million, 30-megawatt ethanol project from Swiss-based Energy Corporation and Addax & Oryx Holdings B.V. Should it push through, the project would be the largest in Sierra Leone.

Source: ECOSEED. Feb.25.2010

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