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Greening Tea Factories in Kenya: Using Absolicon Solar Collectors in Tea Process

Closed
Mitigation
Agriculture/fishery
Energy
Forestry
Industry
Call 7
Kenya
Time consumed
 
Start: 01-Jan-19 End: 30-Sep-23
Lead Nordic partner
Absolicon Solar Collector AB
Country of Lead Nordic partner
Sweden
Local partner(s)
World Wide Fund for Nature Kenya (WWF-Kenya), Tealand Engineering and Construction Limited
NCF grant size
500,000
Total project cost
625,000
Technologies
Concentrated solar power
Methods
Sustainable fuels
Country of implementation:
Kenya
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Description

The project objective is to reduce virtual water and GHG emissions within the tea industry in Kenya through a combination of using renewable energy sources and energy saving measures, including replacing wood fuel in tea processing with solar concentrators.

The main objective of the project is to reduce the use of Eucalyptus in tea production hence reduce on virtual water and greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions within...
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Objective

The project's long-term ambition is to establish energy plans for tea factories, including energy audits, proposals for energy-efficient investments, pursue favorable financing, increase profitability, improve livelihoods of the small-holder farmers and prepare for a WWF green factory certification program.

Results

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Sustainable Development Goals
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