Renewables & Environment - Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Over 85% of the 40M households in Nigeria are unable to afford clean cooking options such as LPG. Consequently, they rely on unclean biomass fuels such as kerosene, firewood, charcoal, and sawdust for their household cooking and heating needs. Cooking with these unclean fuels has been shown to cause serious respiratory health ailments. It is estimated to result in 64,600 deaths annually in Nigeria; with women and children disproportionately impacted as the they bear the cooking responsibilities in most households in Nigeria.Gray GaaS is on a mission to to migrate 200,000 households in Nigeria away from utilizing unhealthy biomass cooking fuels, to Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) by 2025. This will help prevent current fatalities from unclean cooking, improve respiratory health of women and children in the country and reduce the environmental impact from CO2 emission and deforestation.