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Ethanol plant to serve 70 percent fuel needs
Sydney Kawadza Assistant News Editor
THE massive Chisumbanje ethanol plant is sitting on one million litres of fuel produced in three weeks when production commenced.
The US$600 million project, initiated last year, is expected to provide 70 percent of Zimbabwe’s fuel needs.
Experts in the fuel sector say the project is likely to result in significant reduction in the price of petrol and a steady supply of the commodity on the market.
The project is a joint venture between the Agriculture and Rural Development Authority (Arda) and Green Fuel Private Limited.
In an interview yesterday after the tour of the massive plant in Chisumbanje, Arda board chairman, Mr Basil Nyabadza, said the plant could start distributing the ethanol fuel to processors for blending with petrol this week.
“We are expecting to get a licence from the regulatory authority anytime this week. We hope that the distribution would also commence as soon as we get the licence.
He, however, could not disclose to what extent it was going affect the current price of petrol, which was between US$1,36 and US$1,46.