One village, one dam to begin in Kpandai District

Government, as part of its flagship programme; One
Village One Dam, would build 10 units of 300KW
Biopower and 80 hectres of centre pivot irrigation dams
in 10 selected villages within the Kpandai District.
It would also construct a 300KW dairy farm biogas
power plant and irrigation dam as well as fertilizer
production units in selected villages in the three regions
of the north.
The programme is in partnership with the Renewable
Energy and Environmental Conservation (REEC)
Biopower, a subsidiary of Hi-Limit Group.
This was in a statement issued by Mr Emmanuel Larbi,
the Chief Executive of Hi-Limit Group at the Kpandai
District Assembly General Meeting for the
commencement of the project, and copied to the
Ghana News Agency in Accra.
The project, estimated at 660 million dollars, is to
generate a total of 132MW of electricity from biopower
plants and 35,200 hectres of centre pivot irrigation
dams spread across the 44 districts of the three
regions of the north.
The objective is to improve rural electrification
development, food production and security, and job
creation.
Mr Larbi said the Hi-Limit patent plant design would
distribute electricity generated from dairy farm
biogas plants to rural villages whiles at the same
time using the biogas effluent (liquid fertilizer) dams
for irrigation purposes.
Mr Mathew Nyidam, the Member of Parliament for
Kpandai and Deputy Majority Chief Whip, expressed
happiness at the commencement of the project in
his district and affirmed government’s support to
make it a reality.
Hi-Limit’s REEC Biopower is a Ghanaian company
with operations in Africa, Europe, and Asia.