AMMAN — The
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced Monday that it would provide a new financing
package worth 14.7 million euros to the
Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), as
part of its support to strengthening the resilience of Jordan’s infrastructure.
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This package is being extended under the EBRD’s GAM Solid
Waste Crisis Response Program. According to an EBRD statement, it consists of a
JD7.9 million EBRD loan to GAM, backed by a 5-million-euro grant from the
European Union (EU).
According to the Jordan News Agency, Petra, the
COVID-19 pandemic and the Syrian refugee crisis have placed unprecedented strain on the
Al-Ghabawi landfill — the capital’s only dumping facility. The GAM has seen a
significant increase in the amount of solid waste received, causing the cells
at the landfill to be filled faster than expected, the statement said.
The new funds will support GAM in constructing a sixth cell
to increase the capacity of the Al-Ghabawi landfill by six million cubic meters
and meet the city’s needs for another three years.
The funds will also support the purchase and installation of
an additional gas engine to be connected to the existing landfill gas system
(LFG).
The new gas engine is expected to have a capacity of 1.6
megawatts, increasing the total energy capacity to 6.4 megawatts.
Extending the LFG utilization system from three to four
engines will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 73,574 tonnes of CO2 equivalent
(CO2e) per year, of which 5,796 tonnes can be attributed to the substitution of
electricity from the grid, according to the statement.
Once capped and connected to the existing LFG collection and
utilization system, the new engine will increase the volume of landfill gas
collected and enable the GAM to reduce its operating costs by offsetting its
energy bill against the clean energy produced.
Since the start of its operations in Jordan in 2012, the
EBRD has invested more than 1.5 billion euros in the country through 61
projects. Of this, some 180 million euros of EBRD financing and 130 million
euros in grants have been mobilized under the EBRD’s Municipal Resilience
Refugee Response Framework.
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