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| Simgas' salesman explains how the gas is produce to would-be-client |
Simgas Tanzania on Wednesday introduced into the local market cooking
gas which is cost efficient and environmentally friendly.
Simgas East Africa Chief Executive Officer,
Mr Mirik Castro, said at a press conference in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday that
the new product- Gesi550 technology is a self-contained retail biogas digester
and stove system.
“The new product would become saviour to most families especially in
the urban areas which spend substantial income on cooking energy” he said,
adding:
“As most families in the East
Africa region rely on wood fuel, charcoal and kerosene whose prices have become
unaffordable, it is costly to spend high
proportion of their income on cooking energy.
In Tanzania, wood-fuel accounts for up to 90 per cent of total national
energy consumption, with about 2 per cent from electricity and 8 per cent from
petroleum products.
Mr Castro said
biogas is perfectly suited to address problems of obtaining affordable cooking
facilities because it involves a relatively simple and mature technology that
produces consistent, clean and renewable energy to protect environmental
degradations.
He said Gesi550 can save up to 50 per cent of the cooking expenses for
which a family in Dar es Salaam spend a minimum of 2,000/- a day on cooking
energy. He said there are almost zero
costs after installing the technology because it uses leftovers after meal as
raw materials.
On his part, the
company’s Business Development Manager, Mr Tayeb Noorbhai said the total costs
for acquiring the Gesi550 facility including cookers is 550,000/-.
He said 25 city households are currently using the gas facility since
it was introduced last year. The target is to have 1,000 clients before end of
the year, he added. One of the first
users of the Gesi550 technology Mr David Hiza said the cooking energy has
facilitated his family to cut down costs which were being spent on charcoal and
fuel.
For example, he said, the monthly budget for the cooking energy was
about 40,000/- but went down almost to zero after using Gesi550.
It is estimated that two billion people in
the world use biomass fuels as main source of domestic energy. Statistics show that about 30 per cent of
urban families and 90 per cent of rural households in developing countries rely
on traditional biomass fuels as the major, or only, source of domestic energy.
Source: The Daily News,www.dailynews.co.tz, reported by Sebastian Mrindoko
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