Waste Biomass to Charcoal Briquettes in Tanzania Regional Supply Potential – REPIC Project Report Waste Biomass to Charcoal Briquettes in Tanzania Regional Supply Potential – REPIC Project Report Report to the Renewable Energy, Energy and Resource Efficiency Promotion in Developing and Tran- sition Countries (REPIC) – Contract # 2016.08 REPIC project page: http://www.repic.ch/repic-en/projects/ongoing-projects/resource-effi- ciency/efco-tanzania/ Bern, 16. February 2019 Authors: Roger Bar Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern Mittelstrasse 43, 3012 Bern, Switzerland roger.baer@cde.unibe.ch Michael Curran Emmental Forest Cooperation (EFCO) and Buro Weichen stellen Dorfstrasse 16, 3555 Trubschachen curran@weichenstellen.ch Suggested citation: ...

 

Biomass Briquettes in Malawi Olle Faxalv Olof Nystrom Division of Energy Systems Degree Project Department of Management and Engineering LIU-IEI-TEK-A--07/00129--SE Minor Field Study MFS-report nr 103 ISSN 1400-3562 Abstract In Malawi 2.5 % of the forest disappears each year. The use of firewood and charcoal, deriving from forest resources, accounts for about 99 % of the household energy demand in Malawi and is a cause to the deforestation. The Government of Malawi recently launched a programme called Promotion of Alternative Energy Sources Programme (PAESP) with the aim to reduce the use of firewood and charcoal. One of the fuels ...