Renewable energy used for rice milling
The Federation of Cambodian Rice Millers Association in Battambang province will establish a biomass-generated electricity plant in Battambang, an insider said. The plant will cost up to US$10 million and generate 10 megawatts of electricity. Phou Puy, president of the Federation of Cambodian Rice Millers Association (CRMA) and the Baitong Rice Export Company, said he is scheduled to sign a contract with a Malaysian firm in the upcoming days to set up the power plant operated by biomass from rice husks for generating the power. … Victor Jona, Deputy Director General at the Department of Energy in the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy, said officials did not yet have official statistics of biomass generators in Cambodia, but the trends for establishment of these machines have been increasing at rice milling sites because the owners want to use rice husks to generate electricity. He said in the next year, a 26-megawatt power plant would also start operating in a sugar-cane production factory in Kratie province. …
