New Gas Product Enters Market

SIMGAS Tanzania on Wednesday introduced into the local market cooking gas which is cost efficient and environmentally friendly.

Simgas East Africa Chief Executive Officer, Mr Mirik Castro, said at a press conference in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday that the new product- Gesi550 technology is a self-contained retail biogas digester and stove system.

"The new product would become saviour to most families especially in the urban areas which spend substantial income on cooking energy" he said, adding: "As most families in the East Africa region rely on wood fuel, charcoal and kerosene whose prices have become unaffordable, it is costly to spend high proportion of their income on cooking energy," said Mr Castro.

In Tanzania, wood-fuel accounts for up to 90 per cent of total national energy consumption, with about 2 per cent from electricity and 8 per cent from petroleum products. Mr Castro said biogas is perfectly suited to address problems of obtaining affordable cooking facilities because it involves a relatively simple and mature technology that produces consistent, clean and renewable energy to protect environmental degradations.

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