Project partner: Nishant Bioenergy
Ashden Awards Winner, 2005.
Background
In the Punjab, as across India, schools cook their food on expensive LPG, a fossil fuel. Meanwhile, people who made biomass briquettes are struggling to make a living as there is little demand for their fuel. At the same time farmers are burning their crop wastes in the fields – which is wasting a valuable energy resource.
The Project
Ashden Awards Winner, 2005.
Background
In the Punjab, as across India, schools cook their food on expensive LPG, a fossil fuel. Meanwhile, people who made biomass briquettes are struggling to make a living as there is little demand for their fuel. At the same time farmers are burning their crop wastes in the fields – which is wasting a valuable energy resource.
The Project
Enter Ramesh Nibhoria a local engineer and entrepreneur who solved three problems at once. He has developed the Sanja
Chulha - literally, ’combined cookstove’ – which is specially designed to run on briquettes made from crop waste left over from the harvest. These cut CO2 emissions (the crop waste is a renewable source of energy), cut schools’ fuel bills and give a new income to the farmers, who can now sell their waste to the briquette makers.
Chulha - literally, ’combined cookstove’ – which is specially designed to run on briquettes made from crop waste left over from the harvest. These cut CO2 emissions (the crop waste is a renewable source of energy), cut schools’ fuel bills and give a new income to the farmers, who can now sell their waste to the briquette makers.
Ramesh builds the stoves and sells them to the schools on a "hire purchase" basis. As the briquettes are half the price of LPG schools pay Ramesh back from the money they save and own the stoves within 18 months.
Climate Care’s Involvement
Climate Care’s Involvement
The problem that Ramesh faces is that he cannot fund a new stove until he has received the money back from the school – so his production was limited to 3 stoves a year. Although he has a large order book the banks have not lent him any money. Climate Care has provided a capital sum as a “revolving fund” which means he can gear up production to 50 units a year. Ramesh uses money from the fund to buy the materials he needs and to pay the wages; the fund is replenished as the schools pay back their loans – meaning the monies used again for more stoves.
Benefits
Not only does this project reduce CO2 emissions through replacing fossil fuel with biofuel, it also benefits farmers through extra income and schools through lower fuel costs. The stove has also proved popular with the pupils. As one school cook explained: "The chapatis taste just like the ones they have at home - so now they always want more!"
Monitoring
Climate Care has commissioned MITCON Consultancy Services Ltd. to write a third party report and on this project and to monitor the emissions reductions it achieves.
Benefits
Not only does this project reduce CO2 emissions through replacing fossil fuel with biofuel, it also benefits farmers through extra income and schools through lower fuel costs. The stove has also proved popular with the pupils. As one school cook explained: "The chapatis taste just like the ones they have at home - so now they always want more!"
Monitoring
Climate Care has commissioned MITCON Consultancy Services Ltd. to write a third party report and on this project and to monitor the emissions reductions it achieves.
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