KIKE Biofuel Cook Stove And Biofuel Gel

Despite this enormous wealth in energy resources, the vast majority of the Nigerian population is not only extremely poor economically, but energy poor as well. An estimated 98 per cent of households lack access to quality cooking and lighting fuels. This situation compels families to depend wholly on inferior and health damaging fuel wood and kerosene fuel. The overwhelming population of Nigeria are desperate for clean cooking energy.

As one travels throughout States, fuel wood gathering from forests that have become marginal, together with long queues of people waiting to purchase kerosene that is perennially scarce, is in evidence everywhere. For the most part, women are seen in the evenings returning home carrying enormous bundles of fuel wood on their head after a full day’s drudgery of wood gathering.

In the urban cent res, up to 9 per cent of the households depend on kerosene to supplement fuel wood in some cases. About 1 per cent depends on LPG. The use of kerosene has been hampered by a corrupt distribution system, poor quality and condensate –laden kerosene that burn with high emissions of soot and particulate matter. Contaminated kerosene has continued to claim lives in Nigeria.

MISSION
Our mission is to spread the use of clean and improved cook stove technology as a replacement to charcoal, firewood and expensive LPGs in Africa as simply and as rapidly as possible. That’s why we’ve done everything possible to eliminate obstacles and risks asociated with the use of the latter. An estimate of 1,000,000 Improved cook stoves is set to be implemented within the 18months into our pilot project in Nigeria.

BENEFITS
- Minimize the environmental impact, through an activity which wastes are all reused, and using a fuel that does not emit pollutants;
- Improve the quality of health of local households;
- Decrease the deforestation caused by users of the wood stoves;
- Reducing the levels of domestic pollution, by encouraging the use of the biofuel stoves, replacing the traditional wood-fired stoves;
- Reducing the impacts of the rural exodus in the urban areas;