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Launch of Powering Agriculture & Biomass Projects
Launch of Powering Agriculture & Biomass Projects.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 4922V Camco Clean Energy PLC 13 December 2013 \n \n\n \nCamco Clean Energy plc \nLaunch of USAID's Powering Agriculture, and Camco's Biomass Mini-Grids Projects\nCamco Clean Energy's advisory business in Africa was this week formally announced by USAID in Washington as one of the winners of a Clean Tech funding award for Powering Agriculture.\nCamco Clean Energy was one of twelve organisations chosen from a pool of 475 applicants and as previously referred to in our AGM statement of 17 September has won $1 million in funding, spread over a number of years, for its Biomass Mini-Grids Project aimed at establishing fifty agro-industry centres and village grids within Benin and Tanzania. On this Project Camco is partnering with Village Industrial Power (VIP), a micro boiler technology manufacturer based in Vermont, USA.\nUSAID's Clean Tech funding award, Powering Agriculture, which across all participants totals $13 million, supports innovative projects aimed at integrating clean energy technology into the agriculture sectors of developing countries. \nThe aim of the Biomass Mini-Grid Project is to accelerate agribusiness development (irrigation, processing, storage, etc.) by providing clean energy (mechanical, electricity, thermal) to local enterprises. The project will involve constructing fifty biomass plants which will run exclusively off of agricultural waste (palm fibres, coffee and rice husks, cashew shells, cotton stalks, etc.) and provide 5,000 local families with a modern energy supply and improved business and social services.\n \nFor more information on the US AID award see;\nhttp://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/dec-11-2013-usaid-announces-winners-clean-tech-award-powering-agriculture\nFor more information on Powering Agriculture see;\nwww.poweringag.org \nEnquiries:\n \n Camco Clean Energy plc \n Scott McGregor, Chief Executive Officer &nbs...