Sierra Leone - Addax Bioenergy Project

Addax Bioenergy (AB) Project is an integrated bioenergy initiative near Makeni in Sierra Leone. Addax Bioenergy, a division of the Swiss-based energy corporation Addax & Oryx Group (AOG). The project will develop a sugarcane plantation of approximately 10,000 ha to supply about 960,000 tons of cane per year. The project is expected to produce: (i) 83,000 m3 of fuel ethanol for export; and (ii) roughly 100 GWh of electricity from biomass, which will be available for sale to the domestic market. Liquid fertilizer is an additional by-product of the process The ethanol will be produced according to EU bioenergy environmental and social sustainability standards and those of the Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels (RSB).