LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS
For approximately two and half billion people, the predominant energy source used for cooking is biomass: wood, charcoal and animal dung. The use of such fuels is costly in economic, health, and environmental terms. The result is a greater proportion of household income being spent on energy, health problems from the breathing of the smoke fumes, increased deforestation and CO2 emissions and, in the case of wood, less time available for education and studying because of the need to collect firewood.
Therefore, decreasing reliance on biomass has many advantages. Liquefied Petroleum Gas, or LPG, offers such a solution as it costs less, does not emit smoke fumes, does not require the felling of trees and it is a cleaner burning fuel source.
For project examples of liquefied petroleum gas in the field, review the following project links.
Liquefied Petroleum Gas Projects
Tanzania, September 2009
Kibaha, Tanzania, Phase 1
Kibaha, Tanzania, Phase 2