West-Africa launches ‘African Miscanthus Plantations’ project

A very interesting development is underway in West-Africa. In order to tap the rapidly growing global market for biomass and to strengthen local energy security, West-African countries are launching the ‘African Miscanthus Plantations’ project or ‘Plantations Africaines de Miscanthus’ – PAMI. The project aims to create a network of energy plantations across the region, that will export biomass to world markets and fuel local development. The biomass comes in the form of the perennial tropical grass species known as ‘elephant grass’ or Miscanthus giganteus.
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