Business Plan for Sustainable Ethanol Cooking Fuel in Developing World
Abstract
Ethanol cooking fuel has great promise in developing countries, especially in South
Asia and Africa, because it can yield significant economic, environmental and health
benefits. This business plan aims to find a clean and ideal solution to promote ethanol
cooking fuel and stoves cost-effectively for a representative developing country—Kenya.
This plan compares the biological features of a couple of potential feedstock of ethanol
and chooses sweet sorghum because of its great adaptability to semi-arid climate and
short harvesting cycle. Next, by assessing the technical and economical feasibility
of a local small-scale ethanol plant and bringing forward integrated solutions throughout
the entire supply chain from the feedstock production to the retail of ethanol fuel
products, this business plan indicates that ethanol cooking fuel and stoves can substitute
prevalent fuel-wood and three-stone fire cost-effectively.
The local production of ethanol can yield income benefits to local farmers by purchasing
local feedstock, healthy benefits to local residents, especially women and children,
and job-creating benefits to local communities by involving retailers, delivers and
farmers into this business. Besides, if the investor further takes carbon credit generated
from ethanol plant, byproducts of ethanol production and potential government subsidies
or financial incentive policies into consideration, the profitability of this business
could be improved additionally.
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Zhou, Kerui; & Shi, Wenjing (2014). Business Plan for Sustainable Ethanol Cooking Fuel in Developing World. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/8522.Collections
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