The Ebonyi State Government is set to generate electricity via a 5.5 megawatt plant which would utilize rice husks and other available waste materials.
According to the state Governor, David Umahi, who made this known while on inspection of two out of the three state owned rice modern mills, the plant would arrive from Germany in the next four months. He also added that 500kw and 1mw of rice husk plant would arrive the state also.
According to The Vanguard, the inspection of the pants took place in the Iboko Izzi Local Government area of the state where he inspected the condition o the facility, on-going rehabilitation work and the production and packaging of various sizes of rice bags.
He said the essence of the visit was to have first-hand knowledge of the water needs of the mills especially for the parboiling sections which had attained over 80 percent completion.
Umahi assured that excavators would be deployed to the areas for dredging of available natural water sources to meet the water requirement of about 60,000 cubic meters.