A garbage transformer company in Senegal, SATAREM, has expressed interest in investing in Sierra Leone in the area of transforming garbage into electricity and fertilizer.
The company is presently at an engagement stage with the government, and if its plans go well, it is expected that the company will provide over 300 direct jobs and 2,000 indirect jobs through its waste-to-electricity plant.
The Associate Director of Development for SATAREM, Abdullah Bah, during his visit to Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Senegal, said their company is implementing an efficient and modern waste collection system in its operational areas.
He says apart from the waste to electricity plant projects, the company also develops solar projects in a bid to help decrease fuel consumption, particularly in Sub-Saharan African countries, considering the availability of solar energy.
He said, "Our global footprint is by far unmatched right across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas." Our latest Waste to Energy project is a Waste Treatment with the government of Senegal, thus providing a new business model for solid waste management on the Continent, which revolves around the formation of a sustainable development fund for environmental protection in projects of such similar nature.
According to the company, their scope of interest in Sierra Leone under their Regional Subsidiary waste energy project in cities will be done under a BOT arrangement of 25 years. This will allow the transformation of all types of waste, particularly in Freetown, into electricity and usable energy.
SATAREM says if all goes as planned, their model will include not only growing others but rather, growing themselves with a commitment to building a modern 100-bed hospital, an elementary school, and a school for training their future staff in Sierra Leone.
As a company, we have well and thoughtfully decided that we will build a project in Freetown that can be a regional showcase, making Freetown City the first plant in the region to have Waste to Electricity standards. We have, of course, demonstrated over time that our technology is unmatched across Europe, the United States, and Asia, "Bah emphasized.
SATAREM has so far built 18 waste-to-electricity factories in China and is building several factories in Moscow, Lima, Brasilia, Bangalore, and Hyderabad.
The Associate Director of Development said in all of their projects, their technology and facilities do not emit dioxin or other dangerous gases, and all their records are transmitted in real-time while observing that their gas emission control systems are able and easily controlled.
Bah assured the Ambassador that there are a plethora of investment options that they are considering for Sierra Leone, including the provision of turnkey solutions for the development, financing, and management of a range of investment projects in infrastructure and other priority sectors in Freetown.
The Sierra Leone Ambassador to Senegal, Alhaji Brima Elvis Koroma, on behalf of the government, assured the company of the investment opportunities in the country. He stated that the company's proposal is consistent with Sierra Leone's current energy transformation and waste management efforts.
The Ambassador explains how household and industrial waste remain a real problem against which the President has always attached importance to the preservation of the public health of the population.
SATAREM was created in 1992, registered in Switzerland and operating across the globe, and was registered in Senegal to provide solutions for heavy engineering industries. Their services range from project feasibility studies, complete plant design and engineering, equipment fabrication, plant installation, start-up and operation, personnel training, and product development.
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