Jamaica to convert waste into energy, save $60 million

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By Associated Press

Summary

Jamaica has hired a Florida company to build two plants that will convert garbage into energy and help save the government $60 million a year in fuel imports.

Story Published: Oct 17, 2009 at 11:57 AM PST

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica has hired a Florida company to build two plants that will convert garbage into energy and help save the government $60 million a year in fuel imports.

Energy Minister James Robertson says the plants could generate about 18 percent of the country's electricity and eliminate the need to import more than 700,000 barrels of fuel a year.

Robertson said in a statement issued Friday that Miami-based Cambridge Project Development Inc. will oversee construction of the plants at the Riverton landfill in Kingston.

It is unclear when construction would start. Further details were not available, including the project's cost.