In Kenya, Kenya Airways and Rubis Energy Kenya, a subsidiary of Rubis Énergie, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop the first dedicated sustainable aviation fuel refinery on the African continent. The project, based in Nairobi, establishes a framework for the joint engineering, financing, and operation of a facility designed to produce low-carbon fuel from […]
In Kenya, an investigation carried out by SourceMaterial and Politico, with support from T&E data, shows that an Italian government biofuels project in Kenya is potentially harming local farmers and threatening food security. The investigation into Eni’s flagship project raises doubts as to whether non-edible biofuel crops can really be scaled sustainably, says T&E. In […]
In Kenya, the Associated Press reports that consumers are reeling in the face of the sudden demise of Koko that supplied ethanol for clean cooking fuel for the past decade, leaving many in the lurch as their livelihoods are suddenly at risk. Koko was hit in 2023 when the Kenyan government denied its import permits […]
In Kenya, Bloomberg reports Bleriot Group is producing sustainable aviation fuel from croton seed oil grown on 6,000 acres formerly used by a mining company that depleted the ore and is no longer apt for growing food crops. It is producing 28 metric tons of fuel annually as part of its prototyping stage that it […]
In Denmark, the Global Maritime Forum released a new insight brief positioning Kenya as a promising producer of electro-fuels for the shipping sector. Titled Powering Clean Shipping: Kenya in the Global Power-to-X Economy, the report outlines how Kenya’s wind, solar, and geothermal resources could support competitive production of e-methanol and e-ammonia for both domestic vessels […]
In Kenya, Mirova, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers dedicated to sustainable investing, announces financing for KOKO, a climate technology leader. Through an innovative and scalable carbon finance debt facility, the loan from the Mirova Gigaton Fund will enable KOKO to scale up a new type of residential energy utility across Kenya and Rwanda, in […]
In Kenya, the first ISCC EU low ILUC (indirect land-use change) certificate was awarded to Janari Farms, serving as the farmers’ aggregator for Italy’s energy company Eni SpA in Kenya, for the production of castor beans to be used as agri-feedstock in the production of biofuels. At Janari Farms, farmers have cultivated castor on severely degraded […]
In Kenya, Kenyans wrote the president has ordered the Agriculture, Energy, and Treasury to draft rules that would see molasses converted into ethanol in an effort to reduce fossil fuel imports. The ministries have 90 days to submit to the president their suggestions for next steps. To promote domestic production, the president aims to ban […]
In Kenya, an invasive plant crowding out native life in lakes is being converted by by HyaPak Ecotech Limited into packaging that biodegrades over the course of a few months. Hyapak was founded by Joseph Nguthiru in his last year as a civil and environmental engineering student at Egerton University. The idea came to him […]
In Kenya, The East African newspaper reports that African airlines are calling foul on the European Commission for forcing them to comply with rules that include filling up with sustainable aviation fuel when departing from European airports, saying that the price of the fuel will run them aground. Some smaller airlines such as Uganda Airlines […]
