here\u00a0 before the deadline on November 10 2017.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nSafi Sana transforming waste into energy<\/strong><\/p>\nThe company, which has been operating for the past 6 years, is leading a revolution to address Ghana\u2019s sanitation challenges, and at the same time, producing energy to feed the country\u2019s national grid.<\/p>\n
The social enterprise operates a simple model that sees it collect faecal matter and solid waste, pass them through its factory machines to produce organic fertilizer for agricultural purposes, and energy to support the national electricity grid.<\/p>\n
Raymond Ategbi Okrofu, the Country Manager for Safi Sana Ghana, said the company\u2019s model is effective and can be scaled or replicated in various parts of the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing the first plant, we were a bit modest in our design, it can be designed to handle any amount of waste, but the first plant we have here, it is designed to have 30 metric tonnes of waste daily.\u201d<\/p>\n
Safi Sana currently sources solid waste from the Ashaiman market, Accra abattoir and faecal matter from the various public toilet facilities within Ashaiman.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a big anaerobic digester which accomodates all the various strings of waste so it goes through the process of fermentation and the gas is produced, and we channel the gas to power a generator\u2026 currently we are doing about 1.6 megawatts daily; but there is the capacity to do more if we have clean waste and we increase the size of the digester,\u201d Mr Okrofu had earlier revealed.<\/p>\n
He added that the company had entered a Power Purchasing Agreement with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), that enables it to feed the power generated into the national grid and receives payment for it.<\/p>\n
The technology being deployed at the company is imported from Netherlands, and is an initiative of Aqua for All in a consortium of commercial and public partners, including Royal HaskoningDHV, African Development Bank and Wereld Waternet, who raised the \u20ac2.5 million needed to start the project.<\/p>\n
Having spent almost three years to finally establish and officially commence operation of the waste management business after a period of piloting, Safi Sana is hopeful that creating another system to serve the same function on a larger scale, will take less than a year to complete.<\/p>\n
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By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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