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Liberia: BRE Pledges to Assist With Electricity
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The Analyst (Monrovia)
18 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008
J. Nathaniel Daygbor
It has been announced in Monrovia that electricity would soon be restored to the surroundings of Monrovia, something which has not been seen since the 1990s. Currently, central Monrovia and Sinkor are benefiting from the Emergency Power Program of the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC).
But one company that has expressed interest in providing electricity to the surroundings of the city is Buchanan Renewable Energies (BRE), one of the potential investors the Ellen-led administration has captured.
BRE's Chief Executive Officer, Jim Steele said his company is making all efforts to provide electricity to the surroundings of Monrovia before 2010.
On Monday, July 14, 2008, he said the company will bring in its final equipment in October of this year, and that they hope to start operation. First, he said they embark on building of a station in Paynesville and later move throughout the County of Montserrado.
BRE, he said has earmarked a 35-Mega Watt Power for Monrovia to be fuelled by Liberian rubber wood chips. That plant, according to him, is expected to in be use for 25 years.
The construction of the plant and the entire project is valued at US$100m and that the project is intended to provide electricity to the less income because biomass is far less expensive than those using fuel and gasoline, Steele said.
Since the arrival of the company in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, it has spent about US$2.1m for the rehabilitation of the highway connecting Monrovia and Buchanan.
Last year, about US$7 equipments were brought into the country and. Later of this year they brought in US$8.7m worth of heavy duty equipment was brought into the country, an indication that they are prepared to take the country to another stage in their energy work, especially in biomass electricity, BRE Steele said.
According to BRE, fuel will directly come from rehabilitating Liberian rubber plantations, by replacing non-productive rubber trees, and/or replanting or supporting plantation owners to replant their property.
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"Rubber trees are chipped and either sold into the export markets for energy for commercial and industrial applications. The company is also developing domestic demand for the chips as a source of fuel for electricity generation by projects developed by Buchanan Renewable power," he said.
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