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ETHOS 2015 – GACC Tools for Evaluating Fuels Impacts and Sustainability

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How  can  we  evaluate  the  issues  related  to  fuels  and  their  impacts?        How  do  we  demonstrate  that  adop6on  of  clean  cooking  technology  and  fuels  can  save  lives,  how  do  we  create  awareness,  and  how  do  we  translate  the  results  into  decisions  and  progress?      

User  Preferences  

Fuel  use  

Use  of  new  and  old  Stoves  

Household  Air  Pollu8on  

Exposure  

Fuel  availability  and  harves8ng  

Ambient  Air  Pollu8on  

Climate  

Fuel  type  and  characteris8cs  

Livelihoods  and  Gender  Impacts  

Accessibility  and  Affordability  

 

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2015 Priorities - Creating Impact with Cleaner Fuels

•  Perform strong fuels research and analysis on energy landscape, barriers and opportunities

•  Raise awareness to different audiences of the benefits of cleaner fuels

•  Disseminate resources, recommendations, tools and knowledge sharing to help address barriers

•  Build new partnerships and foster existing ones •  Prioritize fuels with impact in focus countries and

maximize fuel impact through innovative technologies •  Strong integration of fuels through Alliance activities •  Facilitate opportunities for South-South information and

technology exchange

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Fuels - Integrating and Harmonizing Efforts Health,  Environment  

and  M&E  

Market  Research/Consumer  Awareness  

Standards  and  Tes6ng  

Gender  &  Humanitarian  

Enterprise  Innova6on/

Capacity  Building  

Fuel  educa6on  and  trainings  Strengthen  fuel  standards;  

capacity  of  tes6ng  centers;  catalog  

Assess  availability,  environmental  impacts,  sustained  adop6on  and  

health  benefits  

Fuel  grantee  support  to  scale  sustainably  

Assess  adop6on  of  available  and  cleaner  

fuels;  raise  awareness  of  fuel  benefits  

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•  Need for country-specific information on fuels •  Lack of information regarding cost to the consumer of various

fuel types •  Need for fuel life cycle analysis on fuel options including

tradeoffs with movement along the fuel ladder –  Environmental impacts and efficiencies, emissions, cost for

production/distribution, consumer preferences

•  Inform decisions about fuel choices for programs and investors and ensure partners can demonstrate the impacts of their projects

•  Important to evaluate the impacts of fuels-focused projects •  Knowledge sharing for improved methods for processing solid

biomass

Fuels Roundtable Results – Sept. 2012

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Evaluating How Fuel Choices Drive Impacts

Feedstocks  • Ethanol  (starch,  cellulosic)  • Charcoal  briqueXes  (carbonized  and  non-­‐carbonized;  wood,  bamboo,  crop  residues)  

• Biomass  briqueXes  and  pellets  • Small  wood  chips  • Whole  wood  • Biogas  (crop  res,  dung)  • LPG  

Produc8on  • Ethanol  produc6on  • Carboniza6on  • Biomass  brique]ng  • Pelle6za6on  • Anaerobic  diges6on  

End  Use  • Combus6on  in  cookstove  

• Ash/residue  from  cookstove  

• Disposal  of  Ash/Residue  

Transporta6on  and  Infrastructure  

Social   Environmental   Economic  Livelihoods   Black  Carbon   Produc6vity  

Household  Finances   Net  Energy  Demand   Employment  

Time  Use   Par6culate  MaXer   Affordability  

HH  Social  &  Econ.  Well-­‐being   Cumula6ve  Energy  Demand   Life  Cycle  Costs  

China,  India,  Bangladesh,  Ghana,  Kenya,  Nigeria,  Uganda  

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Key Audiences

Fuel  Producers/  Enterprises  • Ability  to  evaluate  fuel  op6ons  using  different  criteria  • Geographic  regions  

• Distribu6on  channels  

• Resource  availability  

   Policy  Makers  • Ability  to  evaluate  fuel  op6ons  based  on  policy  priori6es

   • Availability  • Quality  • Safety  • Sustainability  • Livelihood  opportuni6es  

Regional  Market  Managers  • Develop  a  more  evidence-­‐based  Alliance  strategy  

• Be  equipped  with  quan6fied  informa6on  to  share  about  challenges  and  opportuni6es  across  fuel  types  

• With  ministries  to  priori6ze  and  allocate  resources  

• With  local  enterprises  

Investors  •  Iden6fy  barriers  to  further  investment  

• Understand  the  business  case  for  entering  and  suppor6ng  fuels  cooking    sector    

Consumers  • Ability  to  make  informed  decisions  about  fuel  use  • Availability  • Affordability  • Accessibility  • Awareness  

Researchers  • Understand  opportuni6es  to  improve  harves6ng,  processes  or  conversion,  distribu6on  

• Exchange  best  prac6ces  and  scale  them    

The  study  and  tool  will  enable  each  group  to  evaluate  and  compare  how  their  fuel  choices  drive  various  impacts  

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RESOURCE ASSESSMENT

ANALYSIS

PROCESS ANALYSIS

CAPACITY BUILDING

§  Evalua6on  of  resource  and  produc6on  poten6al  §  Iden6fica6on  of  boXlenecks  and  poten6al  solu6ons  to  overcome  them  

§  Recommenda6ons  on  technical  and/or  economic  aspects,  partner  and  sponsor  iden6fica6on,  market  evalua6on  and  local  constraints  

§  Full  analysis  of  materials  and  energy  used  for  the  produc6on  §  Iden6fica6on   of   the   most   efficient/impacdul   ac6ons   to   op6mize   the  process  and  produc6on  methods  in  a  sustainable  way  

§  Ac6on  plan  for  scale-­‐up,  tools  and  training  to  move  forward  with  results  

§  Communica6ons  to  talk  to  investors  and  convince  customers  of  benefits  

Fuel Sustainability Analysis

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►  CharbriqueXes  from  sustainable  biomass  represent  a  strong  lever  for  the  reduc6on  of  Climate  Change  as  an  alterna6ve  fuel  to  tradi6onal  charcoal  

►  The  main  source  of  posi6ve  impact  is  the  use  of  renewable  biomass  instead  of  non-­‐renewable  wood  

►  Transport  of  charbriqueXes  or  charcoal  is  a  negligible  source  of  impacts  compared  to  non-­‐renewability  of  biomass  

►  Increasing  the  produc6on  of  charbriqueXes  with  a  non  op6mized  charring  technology  has  a  higher  posi6ve  impact  on  Climate  Change  than  op6mizing  the  charring  technology  without  scaling  up  the  produc6on  

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Results of the Life Cycle Analysis for impacts on Climate Change – Char-briquettes

0.00  

5.00  

10.00  

15.00  

20.00  

25.00  

30.00  

35.00  

40.00  

1  ton  with  high  GHG  emissions  from  kiln  

1  ton  with  no  GHG  emissions  from  kiln  

2  tons  with  high  GHG  emissions  from  kiln  

tCO2-­‐eq

 avoided

*  

Comparison  of  the  impact  on  Climate  Change  of  charbriqueNes  for  different  charring  

technologies  and  volumes  of  produc8on  

*  Average  avoided  emissions  of  GHG  calculated  with  a  simplified  LCA  from  EFA’s  project  comparing  the  produc6on  of  charbriqueXes  from  renewable  agricultural  wastes  to  the  produc6on  of  tradi6onal  charcoal  in  Uganda  

Scale  up  with  the  same  technology  

Technology  improvement  with  same  produc6on  rate  

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Greater integration of fuels - Clean Cooking Catalog

•  Development  of  fuels  sec6on  similar  to  stoves  sec6on    –  Descrip(ons,  materials  used,  links  to  fuel  manufacturers,  test  

results,  etc.  •  ‘Submit  a  fuel’  form  •  Re-­‐categoriza6on  to  reflect  industry  classifica6ons  •  Emphasis  on  fuel  specific  tes6ng  results  •  Updated  glossary  •  Data  valida6on  •  Future  ISO  fuels  standards  integra6on      

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Up to date website with data and statistics on clean cooking, online library of relevant reports and research, focus country hubs with the latest news, resources and activities

27 Alliance research studies, over 20 market assessments and consumer based studies, more than a dozen resources created for the sector, including best practice guides, thematic online hubs and toolkits

Dozens of webinars, in country trainings on resource guides and toolkits, research results presented at various events, monthly newsletter

Online communities of practice, biennial sector forum and numerous country level meetings, initial piloting of south-south meetings between Africa and China

Alliance

Knowledge Hub

Compile

Create

Disseminate

Connect

Alliance Knowledge Hub

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Help Us Help You!

•  Any missing pieces to the impacts being evaluated?

•  Any key audiences missing? •  How would you use such a tool? •  What king of messaging would be

most effective? •  What would you want to see in the

online tool?

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Thank you  Seema  Patel,  spatel@cleancookstoves.org  

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Spark  Grantees  focused  on  Scaling  up  Fuel  Produc8on  

SME  Funds  is  scaling  up  their  ethanol  stove  and  ethanol  cooking  gel  (developed  from  sawdust)  business  to  meet  the  growing  demands  in  Nigeria.  

Eco-­‐Fuel  Africa  makes  clean  burning  fuel  briqueXes  (green  charcoal)  made  from  biomass  waste  (charcoal  powder,  crop  residues  and  cassava  flowers)  which  burn  as  well  as  charcoal  from  wood,  but  burn  longer  and  cleaner  and  cost  less  than  charcoal  from  wood  in  Uganda.  

Sustainable  Green  Fuel  Enterprise  manufactures  high  quality  char-­‐briqueXes  made  from  biomass  waste  (coconut  shells  and  char-­‐residues)  to  replace  unsustainable  charcoal  in  Cambodia.    

SimGas  delivers  small-­‐scale  bio-­‐gas  systems  in  East  Africa  that  use  livestock  waste  or  organic  household  waste  into  methane  gas  and  fer6lizer.  

PIF  Grantees  focused  on  Fuel  Innova8ons  

CleanStar  Ventures  is  researching  ways  in  which  their  ethanol  model,  which  has  been  successful  in  Mozambique,  might  scale  up  in  other  parts  of  the  world  through  technology  innova6on  and  last-­‐mile  fuel  distribu6on  

C-­‐Quest  Capital  is  tes6ng  price  elas6city  and  consumer  preference  for  their  business  model  which  links  improved  cookstoves  with  sustainable  biomass  fuel  in  Malawi.  

Emerging  Cooking  Solu8ons  is  pioneering  a  market  for  biomass  pellets  (made  from  agricultural  waste  and  forest  residues)  through  its  sale  of  gasifying  stoves  in  Zambia.    

Fuels enterprises that are innovating and scaling up

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Strengthening the Impact of Cleaner Fuels Across the Value Chain

Resource Availability Production/Processing Distribution Use

Expand processed biomass supply and stakeholder engagement – East Africa

Improve affordability, access and scale of pellets in China

Expand access and affordability of LPG in Ghana, India and Kenya

Evaluate social, economic and environmental impacts and research gaps across fuel value chain

Fuel Enterprise Innovation, Scale, and Capacity Building

Coordinate activities, including capacity building, with bioenergy/ethanol global strategic partnership networks