The facility, which would burn vegetable oilandanimalfat, could power up to 18, 000 homes and start operating from the beginning of 2015, according to Edgeley Green Power.
Liban Egal, a Somali entrepreneur who grew up in Baltimore in America, has started work with an American-trained chemist to produce bio-diesel from animalfat, which the cattle-herding Somalis normally have in abundance, along with used oiland chemicals.