Sistema.bio
- Country
- Kenya
- Technology
- Biomass
- Business model
- Waste to Energy
ElectriFI invested USD 2m in Sistema.bio a company manufacturing, distributing, installing and financing biomass digesters for small and medium scale farmers. The biogas produced is then used for cooking, heating, or electricity generation. The investment aims to support Sistema.bio’s rapid scale up in Latin America, East Africa, and South Asia.
Contract signature date: May 2019
Countries: India and Kenya
Total ElectriFI financing: USD 2m
Environmental and Social Category: B
(A) high risk, (B+) medium high risk, (B) medium risk or (C) low risk
About the project:
ElectriFI contracted a USD 2m equity loan alongside Engie RDE, DILA Capital (and potentially others) to enable the company to continue its scale up and international expansion principally in Kenya and India.
Sistema.bio manufactures, sells, installs, finances and services a range of modular biogas digesters and accessories design for smallholder farmers. Since inception in 2010 they have installed over 5600 units from hubs in LatAm, Kenya and India. Designed to serve farms from 2 to 200 cows, the product range varies in size from a single 6m³ biodigester, to a number of interconnected 40m³ units. With the biogas produced, an average household of 5 can do all its cooking with the smallest unit. Besides cooking, the larger systems can also be used for water or space heating and mechanical/electrical appliances such as a chaff cutter, water pump or milking machine.
At a glance:
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- Number of beneficiaries
- 211,543
- Annual output (MWh/y)
- GHG avoidance (tCO2eq/y)
- 265,000
Impact
- Beneficiary
- Sistema.bio
- Financing instrument
- Equity
- Amount
- USD 2m
- Countries
- Kenya and India
- Technology
- Biomass
- Business model
- Waste to energy
- Year
- 2019
- Facility
- ElectriFI global