by NAN (Leadership) The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says plans are underway to set up an energy renewable plant that will use agro products to generate energy.
Its Group General Manager in charge of Renewable Energy Division, Mr Rabiu Suleiman, stated this on Tuesday in Makurdi during a courtesy call on Gov. Samuel Ortom at the Government House.
Suleiman said the project, which would cost about 300 million dollars, would be financed through joint partnership with foreign partners.
He said the corporation had already secured technical partners that were ready to support the project.
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He commended the Benue Government for providing 20,000 hectares of land for the projects’ take-off and assured that the land would form part of its equity share of the plant.
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He said the land would be used for the cultivation of sugarcane, cassava, palm kernel for the extraction of ethanol as a renewable energy source.
”Apart from ethanol which will be sourced from the agricultural products, we can also make fertilisers and animal feeds from their byproducts.” READ MORE