Renewable Cooking Solution for All
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Founding Story
Deepak
Ashwani
Dazin
, DAG, Daa
, GS, Gisenyi
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Dazin success depends on increasing reach by fuel cookies factories. Dazin can rapidly increase the number of factories by build and maintain model in which the cost of establishment is done by the rural communities and households. Dazin will maintain and sell fuel cookies in urban areas by taking a royalty fee from each owner. The owner-operator is responsible for all costs and entitled to all revenues. Staff training is included in the purchase price and maintenance and repair are provided on a fee-for-service basis. Dazin aim to spread across more than 500 community forests in Bhutan.
Rural customers cannot bring enough biomass resulting in low fuel production. Our Rwandan project has proven that rural households constantly bring the biomass. It is also possible that other improved stoves project ventures in Bhutan push out our operations. Unless the venture addresses fuel, it is not serious competitor, and so far all other improved stoves ventures do not use fuel-side approach. Biogas based projects provides fuel but limited feedstock in Bhutan is blocking it to expand biogas plants. For any technical issues, factory manager gets training from our Danish machine provider.
Dazin has collaborated with the rural communities to handle supply chain of biomass and to suggest improvements in the stoves. Dazin is in partnership with C.F. Nielsen, Denmark to buy the fuel cookies production machines. Dazin has also collaborated with Africa Clean Energy to supply gasifying cooking stoves (designed by Philips Engineers and considered as world’s best biomass based cooking stove by University of Berkeley, California).
Create an environment where people give feedback freely.
Dazin deals directly with the customers by collection centers and retail stores by focusing on women as a beneficiary. Dazin targets urban and rural households in Bhutan that use wood or other biomass residues for residential energy consumption. People participation is used to collect the raw material and the type of raw material is decided by each household. All the retail outlets are also used to take the feedback from the customers using our stove plus fuel combo. The Company also directly communicates with LPG users who are suffering due to high cost and unreliable supply of LPG.
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