Rwanda to consume its own cooking gas next year
By processing methane into Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), Rwanda is about to use its own cooking gas by 2022 that will be produced via using Lake Kivu methane.
The Gas meth Chief Executive, Stephen Tierney, said that Rwanda will be able to exploit its own gas that will be used in cooking, industries and vehicles.
The official contract between Rwanda and Gas meth Energy was signed in February 2019 with aim of processing methane into CNG within two years from then. The deal is $400millions.
The half of the overall production will be for the domestic cooking consumptions. The current focus signing up the population who will be in need of the gas in partnership with Rwandan government as it will reduce air pollution and deforestation issues. RIP to the firewood usage.
Now, the design of the project is done from the hair to toe as Tierney announced. The Gas meth Energy will serve households around 400,000 who are now using firewood fuel for cooking.
Not only will the single homes be served by this project, but also institutions like schools and prisons.
This project came as a supplement to Rwanda’s May 2019 project aimed at reducing firewood fuel usage together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
In 2014, Rwanda produced 0.4 per cent of the world’s greenhouse emission (CO2
) as it was 7.59 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) at the time as FAO published.
