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Ugandan press sources, including Business plant to cleaner energy, which is LNG ... LPG is
Daily, initially reported on October 24 that the not natural gas, as it still contains carbon in it,”
minister had announced that Kampala intended she wrote.
to convert the 50-MW TPP into a facility capa- The government’s move follows its reposses-
ble of turning out LPG, a light hydrocarbon fuel sion of the TPP, which had been managed by an
that is also known as cooking gas. outside investor since 2007. Kampala entered
However, Nankabirwa said in a Twitter post into a 13-year build, own, operate and transfer
the following day that the power station would (BOOT) concession with Jacobsen Elektro Nor-
actually be turned into an LNG plant. She also way) in 2007.
stated that LNG was the government’s preferred After that concession expired in 2021, Kam-
option, as it generated fewer harmful emissions. pala put the plant back under the control of
“Due to the clean energy transition, I thought state-owned Uganda Electricity Generation Co.
it wise to convert this 50-MW thermal power Ltd (UEGC). ™

PETROCHEMICALS
Ghana’s first fertiliser production plant

95% complete, government official says

AFRICA GHANA’S first fertiliser production plant is improved food and nutrition security.
should come online in a matter of months and Amoako said that the government is looking
satisfy the rising demand of local farmers, the to develop long-term solutions with a team in
Ghanaian Times reports. place “to develop feasibility studies to develop
Nana Serwaa Amoako, a technical advisor a fertiliser manufacturing plant using our local
on the agricultural sector to the Ghanaian pres- natural gas.”
ident’s office, said the plant is 95% complete and FERARI operates in conjunction with the
once online will mitigate the impact of a short- Programme Planting for Food and Jobs of the
age stemming from supply chain disruptions Government of Ghana (PFJ-GoG) to embed
since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. development efforts into national policy priori-
She was speaking at the Fertiliser Research ties to reach impact at scale.
and Responsible Implementation (FERARI) FERARI is also helping the PFJ-GoG to
coordination conference on Tuesday (October establish a Ghana National Fertiliser Platform,
24), held under the theme “Global Fertiliser and developing its soil mapping expertise towards an
Food Crisis: Mitigation Strategies for Ghana.” information platform.
FERARI is an international public-pri- Ghana, a net importer of food, has recorded
vate partnership that builds science-based food inflation of some 122% this year, according
approaches to site-specific strategies for wide- to the World Bank. This is the highest rate in the
spread adoption by farmers in Ghana for region. ™

Glofert commissioned its fertiliser plant in 2019 (Photo: Twitter/@MBawumia)

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