Kenya

"Energy Efficiency."

EFFICIENT BIOMASS STOVES FOR INSTITUTIONS AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES IN KENYA

This project seeks to remove market barriers to the adoption of sustainable biomass energy practices and technologies by institutions (schools and hospitals) and small businesses (restaurants, hotels) in rural and urban areas of Kenya by: (i) promoting highly efficient improved stoves and (ii) establishment of woodlots owned and managed by the institutions and private sector. The project builds on the successful initiatives of local Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) and private sector players and scales up successful existing business models using well-proven commercial technologies by removing barriers, which are currently limiting the growth of this market. The project builds on and scales up a successfully implemented GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) in which a revolving fund credit scheme to disseminate energy-saving stoves to institutions in Kenya on a commercial basis was established.

Specific project outcomes include:
1. Development and strengthening of supportive policies and legal framework for sustainable biomass energy businesses;
2. Strengthening and expanding supply chains for both products and financing; and
3. Improved awareness by policy makers, financial sector, suppliers and end-users of benefits and market opportunities for improved stoves.

The key project indicator is the reduction of CO2 equivalent emissions by an accumulated total of between 400,000 and 960,000 tonnes by 2020. Domestic benefits include reduced deforestation and forest degradation, reduced air pollution indoors (and outdoors), improved respiratory and general health of cooks, reduced cooking times, less time spent gathering fuel, cleaner kitchens, protection for community forests, reduced fuel costs, and income generation for stove producers and seedling producers / farmers establishing woodlots.

INVESTOR'S GUIDE TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN KENYA

UNDP also supports a project to increase energy efficiency and conservation in Small and Medium Enterprises in Kenya.To access the "Investors Guide to Energy Efficiency in Kenya" a 2006 publication in PDF. Click here for the Introduction, Click here for Main contents.

ENERGY AWARD SCHEME DEVELOPED THROUGH THE KAM-GEF

Price is among the key factors that influence a consumer’s decision to buy a product or service. One of the main reasons that Kenyan goods are not competitive in the local and international markets is the high cost of energy that translates into the high cost of production hence high pricing of goods. It is with this background that UNDP-Kenya through the industrial energy efficiency project (IEEP) sponsored a training course on ‘energy efficiency financing’ in 2002. The aim of the course was to train managers and engineers in Kenyan small and medium-scale industries how to use manufacturing techniques that are more efficient, less costly and more profitable.

The training was a success and this is visible through the many local companies. A small local company was able to save 30,000 Kenyan shillings per month on fuel costs by installing an economizer on its boiler. With this remarkable performance, an award scheme was established in 2004 to appreciate the efforts of these companies. The Kenya Association of manufacturers (KAM) has thus developed a partnership with the UNDP Global Environmental Facility (GEF) to annually award local entrepreneurs who produce whilst observing environmental friendliness. For more information, click on the web pages below.

http://www.kam.co.ke/listArt.asp?cat=GEFKAM

http://www.kam.co.ke/ema/index.htm