Ruto announces plans to generate electricity from Nairobi garbage to curb blackouts
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Ruto announces plans to generate electricity from vast heaps of Nairobi garbage in a bid to curb blackouts
Ruto announces plans to generate electricity from vast heaps of Nairobi garbage in a bid to curb blackouts.
President William Ruto announced a new plan to address Nairobi’s power outages and rationing in Nairobi by generating energy from garbage.
Speaking during a groundbreaking ceremony for 6,704 Affordable Housing units in Starehe, Ruto said there’s progress in the procurement process of the grand project that seeks to power Nairobi through waste recycling.
He added that his administration will work with the county government to actualize the ambitious project.
“It is a project I am committed to, the national government will support the county government of Nairobi to actualize the project even as we work with other counties across Kenya,” he said.
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Garbage collected from different Nairobi households would be assembled at one specific place and converted into an electric-producing site.
The trash will then be recycled to generate electricity and transmitted to power different homesteads.
Dandora Dumpsite is one of the garbage collection centres highlighted in the electricity production plan.
In other countries such as Ethiopia and US, unprocessed waste is burned in a large incinerator with a boiler and a generator to produce electricity.
India also uses the same technology to generate electricity where the gases produced are treated to prevent air pollution.
The resultant ash from the incineration of solid waste is used as construction material after necessary processing.
The project is expected to address frequent power outages and rationing in Nairobi, occasioned by low water levels in the dams.
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