Towards affordable clean energy self supply.
The enterprise looks forward to empowering community to create fuel, electricity and food in their rural area. The community will produce Castor and Jatropha, inter-crop peanuts and sunflower, collect wild oil seeds for biofuel production using the Sustainer technology that can be moved from village to village. The sustainer is able to produce biofuel and electricity from wind and solar.
About You
Section 1: About You
First Name
Zablon
Last Name
Wagalla
Website
Country
Section 2: About Your Organization
Is your initiative connected to an established organization?
Organization Name
Trees for Clean Energy Network
Organization Website
Organization Phone
+254-733961330
Organization Address
Organization Country
Is your organization a
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has this organization been operating?
1‐5 years
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Your idea
Name Your Project
Towards affordable clean energy self supply.
Describe Your Idea
The enterprise looks forward to empowering community to create fuel, electricity and food in their rural area. The community will produce Castor and Jatropha, inter-crop peanuts and sunflower, collect wild oil seeds for biofuel production using the Sustainer technology that can be moved from village to village. The sustainer is able to produce biofuel and electricity from wind and solar.
Country your work focuses on
Kenya
Innovation
What makes your idea unique?
The sustainer is a unique and innovative solution to create fuel and power in
remote areas. It is a modular containerized power box for production of different types of energy. The sustainer extracts oil from nuts and seeds. The oil extraction unit has an advanced filtration system to make edible oil which can be sold directly for cooking and frying purposes. The oil can also be used as feedstock for the incorporation into biodiesel processor. The biodiesel produced has a high quality and can be used in any conventional diesel engine without adjustments to the engine itself. The Sustainer has numerous possibilities that includes: Edible oil, biodiesel, solar energy, animal feed, Biogas, wind energy, 24 hrs/day electricity via battery pack and generator running on vegetable oil and/or biodiesel, water pump and water purification.
When running on full capacity, the residual cake is sufficient to feed 25 cows per day or hundreds of chickens. with 600 liters of biodiesel or oil produced it is possible to run a generator with a capacity of 2,400 kw per day.
Do you have a patent for this idea?
No
Impact
This Entry is about (Issues)
Tell us about the social impact of your innovation. Please include both numbers and stories as evidence of this impact
Energy security enhanced in Nyakach (4,650 households lighted and cooking fuel developed and utilized. Particularly beneficial to women.);
Food security Enhanced in Nyakach (70% of families in Nyakch improve food production per area unit of land);
Education standard
improved (70 % of school going children study at night due ti availability of light); Employment and Enterprises created
(50 % of youth self employed, 200 youth Enterprise centers created)
Problem: Describe the primary problem(s) that your innovation is addressing
Energy poverty hinders economic development in rural areas. Food insecurity is increased since women spend a lot of time looking for firewood at the expense of doing activities that creates income. Cooking with firewood not only destroys the environment but also women and children are prone to respiratory diseases they contact during cooking. Children education standards have reduced drastically since they cannot read at night. The need for energy to cook, lighting and power enterprises is needed.
Actions: Describe the steps that you are taking to make your innovation a success. What might prevent that success?
Our organization promotes the development of clean energy, improvements of livelihoods and environmental conservation. TCEN has developed partnerships with organizations to achieve the objective of up scaling energy crop agriculture and has also developed partnership with solarix to provide the sustainer that boosts energy production in the village to commercialize the venture. We empower women groups, Youth Groups and we have developed Clean energy network company to commercialize and market the products that come from clean energy initiative.
Results: Describe the expected results of these actions over the next three years. Please address each year separately, if possible
1st Year: At least 10 nurseries developed, 600,000 seedlings
developed and planted,1,500 households adopt energy crop farming, 1000
youth per nursery site get jobs.100 youths trained as Trainers of Trainers for
project up scaling
2nd Year:1,500 household supplied with Bio kerosene for house lighting,10 youth enterprises created, 5,000 acres of Arid land reclaimed.
3rd Year: Employment and Enterprises created (50 % of youth self employed, 200 youth Enterprise centers created, Education standard improved (70 % of school going children)
How many people will your project serve annually?
101‐1000
What is the average monthly household income in your target community, in US Dollars?
Less than $50
Does your innovation seek to have an impact on public policy?
Yes
If your innovation seeks to impact public policy, how?
By advocating for the adoption of energy crop agroforestry as a cropping system and advocate the Kenyan government to adopt renewable energy policy and fair trade of rural producers and independent power producers.
Sustainability
What stage is your project in?
Operating for 1‐5 years
Does your organization have a board of directors or an advisory board?
Yes
Does your organization have a non monetary partnerships with NGOs?
Yes
Does your organization have a non monetary partnerships with businesses?
Yes
Does your organization have a non monetary partnerships with government?
Yes
Please tell us more about how partnerships could be critical to the success of your innovation
Partnerships open up the organization to many individuals across the world that can be of interest to the organization by supporting our work, marketing our products or giving us an idea that can be designed to be a project.
We would like to learn more about how your initiative is financially supported. Please explain your business plan/revenue model
The communities will sell the nuts, cow dung and oil seeds to the sustainer
managed by a community set committee at affordable prices and this will
motivate the families to practice energy crop farming and agroforestry. The
sustainer will generate income and meet cost of operations from selling
electricity generated and biodiesel to make profit. The proceeds will be used to micro finance business initiatives of youth and women to actively participate in the value chain and supply of raw materials to the sustainer.
The Story
What was the defining moment that led you to this innovation?
Energy poverty in rural areas, crop failures and land degradation in rural Kenya.
Tell us about the person—the social innovator—behind this idea.
Zablon is a versatile, analytical, and hard working individual with a practical approach to issues. Always strives and aspires to achieve results.An Agricultural scientist trained from Egerton University and have a passion for energy security and environmental conservation. After coordinating regional environmental enterprise development when i was working as a program consultant at World Agroforestry Center under the program Trees on Farm Network he was looking into how rural people can be energy secure and improve their food productivity. He is a social entrepreneur at heart developing and promoting solutions to environmental and social problems affecting societies especially where other solutions have failed. He is the founder and director of Trees for Clean Energy Network (TCEN) and designs programs and ventures, and see the implementation of these programs. He believe in social entrepreneurship that creates sustainability of projects.
How did you first hear about Changemakers?
Newsletter from Changemakers
If through another source, please provide the information
ICRW
Does your project address any of the following barriers to women’s technology access and use?
If you checked any of the boxes above, please explain how.
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Does your project involve women in one or more of the following stages of the technology lifecycle? Identification of the problem the technology will solve:
If you checked any of the boxes above, please explain how you will ensure women’s involvement in each relevant phase of the technology lifecycle.
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If women are a focus of your project, how did this focus evolve?
Which type of women will your project reach directly?
In what ways does your project team/leadership involve women?
Has your organization formed any new partnerships in response to this challenge? If so, with what type/s of organization/s?
Has your project leadership had prior experience with the following?
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