Processed biomass fuel
Briquettes made from agricultural and agro-industrial residues that would otherwise be burned or dumped.
- Biomass and carbonised briquettes
- Supply contracts with residue producers
- Packed for household and institutional buyers
Kijiji Clean Energy Platform · HQ Kigali · Built for Africa
Clean cooking fuel, made in Africa from what fields and mills leave behind.
We are building an industrial plant that turns agricultural and forestry residues into briquettes, a distribution network that puts efficient stoves in homes and schools on pay-as-you-go terms, and a carbon programme built to today's integrity standards.
Registered July 2026Pre-operationalPhase 1 in development
250tonnes per day, Phase 1 design capacity
500tonnes per day, full programme
ISO 19867stove performance standard we build to
8cookstove carbon projects registered by our carbon lead, 2014–2021
Capacities are planned design figures, not current output.
Why it matters
What cooking with wood and charcoal costs Africa.
Roughly four in five households in sub-Saharan Africa still cook with traditional fuels. The price is paid in health, in hours of unpaid work and in forests. That is the problem our fuel, stoves and carbon programme are built to reduce.
- ~1 billion
- people in sub-Saharan Africa without access to clean cooking
- 815,000
- premature deaths a year in Africa from household air pollution
- 4 hours
- a day, on average, that women and girls spend gathering fuel and cooking
- 1.3 million
- hectares of forest lost each year
Source: International Energy Agency, Universal Access to Clean Cooking in Africa (2025).
What we do
One chain, from residue to recorded impact.
Most households across Africa still cook with charcoal or firewood. We replace that fuel at the source, then make sure the stove that burns it is efficient and the savings it produces are measured properly.
Efficient stoves, paid over time
High-tier stoves tested to ISO 19867 and sold with fuel, so families pay in small instalments instead of one large price.
- Pay-as-you-go household plans
- Larger stoves for schools and institutions
- Warranty and after-sales service
High-integrity carbon credits
Emission reductions measured stove by stove and certified under recognised standards, including the national Article 6 framework of each host country.
- Gold Standard metered methodologies
- Independent validation and verification
- Carbon revenue reinvested in lower stove prices
Feedstock
What we will turn into fuel.
Residues that are burned in the open or left to rot today. Our feedstock plan draws on crops and agro-processing that already exist at scale in the region.
Maize cobs & husksleft in fields after harvest 
Rice huska by-product of rice milling 
Coffee processing residueshusks and pulp from washing stations 
Supply contractswith the farmers and mills who hold the residue
Stock photos, illustrating the residue types in our feedstock plan. They are not images of KCEP operations or suppliers.
Carbon integrity
Every stove counted once.
Cookstove credits have lost buyers' trust where savings were estimated rather than measured. We are designing our programme around four rules.
- Stove sold
- Sensor records use
- Register entry
- Independent verification
- Credit issued
- MeasureMetered, not estimated. Stove use is recorded by sensors, which is what current quality standards expect.
- SeparateNo double counting. Stoves sold with a public subsidy whose carbon rights pass to the Government never enter our carbon programme.
- VerifyIndependent checks. Validation and verification by accredited third-party auditors before any credit is sold.
- AuthoriseHost-country approval. Credits for international transfer only with authorisation from each host country's designated authority.
| Stove serial | Sold | Programme |
|---|---|---|
| KC-T4-000112 | Household | Subsidy · excluded |
| KC-T4-000113 | Household | Carbon · metered |
| KC-T4-000114 | School | Carbon · metered |
| KC-T4-000115 | Household | Subsidy · excluded |
Illustration of how our register will tag each stove. Serial numbers are examples.
Plan
Built in two phases.
We are raising finance for Phase 1 now. Figures below are design targets from our current plan and will be refined as feasibility work is completed.
- Step 1CollectResidues from farms and mills
- Step 2DryMoisture brought down before pressing
- Step 3DensifyPressed into dense briquettes
- Step 4PackBagged for homes and institutions
- Step 5DistributeTo retailers, schools and households
- Planned Phase 1 process · the plant is in development
Phase 1 · in development
First production line, Rwanda
- Capacity
- 250 tonnes of feedstock per day
- Products
- Biomass and carbonised briquettes
- Distribution
- Pay-as-you-go household stoves, institutional stoves
- Carbon
- Metered programme, Gold Standard
Phase 2 · planned
Full 500 tonnes per day programme
- Capacity
- 500 tonnes of feedstock per day
- Markets
- Expansion across multiple African countries
- Finance
- Raised separately from Phase 1
Site, feedstock supply contracts and equipment quotations are being finalised as part of Phase 1 preparation.
Leadership
A team that has done this before.
Our leadership combines operations, finance and government relations with long experience in cookstove programmes and carbon markets across Africa.
Chairperson
Founder of the platform. Leads strategy, partnerships and financing. Brings international business and logistics experience.
Managing Director
Leads day-to-day operations and finance. Experienced regional business owner.
Carbon & clean-cooking lead
Two decades in improved cookstoves and briquettes. Registered eight cookstove carbon projects with the UNFCCC, Gold Standard and Verra between 2014 and 2021.
Contact
Talk to us.
For partnership, financing or supply enquiries, write to us. We work with partners across Africa and reply in English or French.