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Firm eyes eight-megawatt hyacinth power plant

Water hyacinth in Lake Victoria. (Photo: Courtesy)

A local firm is looking to build an eight-megawatt power plant in Homa Bay County using water hyacinth from Lake Victoria.

Homa Bay Biogas One Ltd is seeking approval from the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to set up the plant at Kobala, where it hopes to exploit the resilient waterweed that periodically engulfs much of the lake by transforming it into biogas.

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