Liberia: HFO plant inaugurated

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf officially inaugurated a 10MW heavy fuel oil (HFO) plant on 13 September at the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) compound on Bushrod Island outside Monrovia. The $27m project was funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency. Finance for the construction of facilities for offloading, transport and storage of HFO was provided by the World Bank through its $35m Accelerated Electricity Expansion Project. Sirleaf switched on the lights in the Snow Hill community in Monrovia’s Gardnerville district and said the restored Mount Coffee hydro plant would start to come on line in December 2016.