We deliver clean and cheap power to people and businesses in rural off-grid communities. Pamoja Cleantech is a R-ESCO (Renewable Energy Service Company).
Pamoja’s Bio-Electricity system generates electricity about 3 times cheaper than PV-systems and 5 times cheaper than diesel driven generators.
This is enabled by a fully vertically integrated system in the local community. Abundandly available biomass waste from local farmers is collected to generate bio-electricity. Local technicians are trained to operate the power plant. The integration of an anchor load customer, such as a telecom tower, water pumping station or an agro-processing unit, provides the opportunity to plan the business case, because the anchor load customer requires a foreseeable amount of power on a daily basis. Additional electricity is distributed to a local community through a mini-grid. The residues of the power plant go back to the farmers as fertilitzer.
Our overall goal is to establish a fully sustainable system in the sense of social, economic and environmental aspects. Local industries make a transition from diesel power to power from renewable sources. The electricity fed into the mini-grid improves the lives of rural poor.
The bio-electricity power plant is based on a gasifier, gas-engine and a generator plus a battery bank (more in “Waste to Energy”). Solar PV can be added if it is suitable. Different to solar PV systems, our hybrid system is able to provide reliable strong power for agro-processing.
The power plants run on biomass waste. This is sourced from organic agricultural residues and backed by dedicated tree plantations.
We are committed to working together with farmer cooperatives to provide ecologically and socially resilient biomass supply chains and to use residue sources that have no productive use (i.e. fertilizer, soil amendment). For plantation crops this means selecting a diversity of species well adapted to the local soils and hydrology.
Powering mechanized processes adds significant value to existing crops. E.g. husking of coffee beans increases the income a farmer can derive from a crop of coffee, and provides a waste product (coffee husks) that can be effectively utilized by our plant to produce electricity.
Read more about these topics in our concept:
Agro-Processing – about added local value
Agro-Forestry – for biomass production
Waste to Energy – describing the power plant
Market Data – 150Mio people without power >>
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